It faced west, was wellwatered with rain and cloud
from the sea, and in general was fullypeopled. About them itseemed to fret and
linger, murmuring in baby-speech.
By day the hot sun fermented us; and we weredizzied
by the beating wind. These measures were not accepted quietly. The Akhua, the Arab
mothersociety, was publicly dissolved.
He made nakedness of the mindas sensuous as
nakedness of the body. They invented no systems of philosophy, no complex
mythologies.
Semites had no half-tones in their register of
vision. Such detachment came at times to a man exhausted by prolongedphysical effort
and isolation. They were a people of spasms, of upheavals, of ideas, the race of
theindividual genius. Hussein was honourable,shrewd, obstinate and deeply
pious.
This was the circulation which keptvigour in the
Semitic body. Semites had no half-tones in their register of vision.
The horizon momentarily broadened for
theArabs.
The horizon momentarily broadened for
theArabs.
They did not understand our
metaphysicaldifficulties, our introspective questionings. The fortuitous opening of
the Suez Canal enabledthem to garrison the Holy Cities.
Greater than the Ahad was the Fetah, the society of
freedom in Syria. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in
senseslowly year by year. The British left his coast open tospecially-regulated food
vessels.
The horizon momentarily broadened for
theArabs.
Islam in various transformations wassubjecting
Africa and parts of Asia. There was a languagecalled Arabic; and in it lay the
test.
They did not understand our
metaphysicaldifficulties, our introspective questionings. Thetowns were just market
towns, as clean and simple as ordinary villages.
Their largest manufacture was of creeds:almost they
were monopolists of revealed religions.
The least morbid of peoples, they had accepted the
gift of Meunquestioningly, as axiomatic. The Arabs said there had been forty
thousandprophets: we had record of at least some hundreds. Turkish rule was
gendarmerule, and Turkish political theory as crude as its practice.
To-day in myold garments, I could play the
bystander, obedient to the sensibilitiesof our theatre . The southside was the edge
of the Indian Ocean, from Aden to Muscat.