[History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of the Conflict Between Religion and Science CHAPTER III 46/67
He journeyed on a red camel, carrying a bag of corn and one of dates, a wooden dish, and a leathern water-bottle.
The Arab conqueror entered the Holy City riding by the side of the Christian patriarch and the transference of the capital of Christianity to the representative of Mohammedanism was effected without tumult or outrage.
Having ordered that a mosque should be built on the site of the temple of Solomon, the khalif returned to the tomb of the Prophet at Medina. Heraclius saw plainly that the disasters which were fast settling on Christianity were due to the dissensions of its conflicting sects; and hence, while he endeavored to defend the empire with his armies, he sedulously tried to compose those differences.
With this view he pressed for acceptance the Monothelite doctrine of the nature of Christ.
But it was now too late.
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