Where our prophet would have been most likely to err would have been in understimating the recuperative power of the Latin end of Europe, and in ignoring the latent forces of the Arabian desert .

• 我们的预言家最容易出错的地方可能是对欧洲拉丁语区的恢复力估计不足，忽视了阿拉伯沙漠的潜在力量。