Epilogue, p.660, f.1
Gobineau, writing about the year 1865, gives the following testimony:
"Thus Babism has won a considerable influence on the mind of Persia, and
spreading beyond the Persian frontier, has overflowed into the pachalick of
Baghdad and penetrated into India. Among its characteristics, one of the
most striking is that, even during the life of the Bab, many of the new
faith, many of its most convinced and devoted followers, have never known
personally their prophet and do not seem to have attached great importance
to the hearing of his instructions from his own lips. Nevertheless, they
rendered him, completely and without reservation, the honors and the
veneration to which, in their own eyes, he was certainly entitled." (Comte
de Gobineau's "Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l'Asie Centrale," p.
255.)