ZitatGenghis Khan was a courageous warrior, a brilliant and ruthless military commander, an inspiring political leader, and an original philosopher. Edward Gibbon believed that the religious philosophy of Genghis Khan had inspired John Locke. In Volume Four of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon wrote: “But it is the religion of Zingis that best deserves our wonder and applause. The Catholic inquisitors of Europe who defended nonsense by cruelty, might have been confounded by the example of a barbarian, who anticipated the lessons of philosophy and established by his laws a system of pure theism and perfect toleration." [Gibbon has used the name Zingis Khan for Genghis Khan.]