A new religion had fanaticised whole nations. Men bred up in the habits of a
wild and roaming freedom, had been brought together by its influence, and
taught to unite the energies of a savage life with all the harmony and
calculable coincidencies of a machine. But this religion was deadly to
morals, to science, to civil freedom: no society could be progressive under
its influence. It was favorable to superstition, cunning, and sensual
indulgence; but it bore no fruit, it yielded no marriageable arms to the
vine, it sheltered no healing plant. The soil was grassless where it grew;
the fox made it its nest at the root, and the owl screamed in its branches.
- Such was the religion of Mahomet.

``The War Not a Crusade'' August 6 1800 _Essays on His Times_ v.I p.240, in
_The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ Princeton University, EoHT
being collectively V.3., consisting of hundreds of newspaper opinion pieces.