Meanwhile, Germans and Frenchmen are in the armies of the Prophet, teaching the rude but vigorous men of the desert how to use arms of precision with deadly effect. In the process of creating a terrible peril for Europe, greed, personal ambition, and national jealousies are contributing to perfect the lessons in modern warfare which England is giving to Islam. No doubt it is true that a great man is needed to weld together the forces of Islam. But why should no strong man be expected to arise in a race so rich in warlike memories? When the Prophet is once crowned with the diadem of military success, there is an army of Mohammedans in India wearing the queen’s uniform, there are vast resources at Constantinople ready to fall from the helpless hands of the Sultan; there are millions of soldiers who require no pay, and have no scruples about the rights of private property. If one gives rein to his imagination, he is soon in a world of awful possibilities. There are two hundred millions of Mohammedans waiting for a leader to restore the glories of Islam. The relations of England to Islam are logically and historically friendly. England has a Moslem army in India, and has long protected the head of Islam at Constantinople, from the consequences of his vices, extravagances and follies. The Indian mutiny had a religious source, but this was denied, and the spring covered up so successfully that, until Mr. Gladstone attacked Disraeli’s policy in the name of Christianity (such as it is) in Bulgaria, England had successfully encountered the difficulties of her position as a Christian power ruling directly and indirectly half the Moslem world.