CHAPTER L: Description Of Arabia And Its Inhabitants .-- Part III.
Arabia was free: the adjacent kingdoms were shaken by the storms of conquest and tyranny, and the persecuted sects fled to the happy land where they might profess what they thought, and practise what they professed.

The religions of the Sabians and Magians, of the Jews and Christians, were disseminated from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

In a remote period of antiquity, Sabianism was diffused over Asia by the science of the Chaldaeans [55] and the arms of the Assyrians.

From the observations of two thousand years, the priests and astronomers of Babylon [56] deduced the eternal laws of nature and providence.

They adored the seven gods or angels, who directed the course of the seven planets, and shed their irresistible influence on the earth.