Algeria, at the commencement of the French occupation, saw arise, each spring, inspired men, who declared themselves invulnerable, and sent by God to drive away the infidels; the following year their death was forgotten, and their successors found no less credence.

The Roman power, very stern on the one hand, yet little disposed to meddle, permitted a good deal of liberty.

Those great, brutal despotisms, terrible in repression, were not so suspicious as powers which have a faith to defend.

They allowed everything up to the point when they thought it necessary to be severe.

It is not recorded that Jesus was even once interfered with by the civil power, in his wandering career.