Thou hast been trained from thy post--ay, trained by the rosy cheek and black eye of one of those houris, to whom you Nazarenes vow rather such service as is due to Allah, than such love as may lawfully be rendered to forms of clay like our own.

It has been thus assuredly; for so hath man ever fallen, even since the days of Sultan Adam." "And if it were so, physician," said Sir Kenneth sullenly, "what remedy ?" "Knowledge is the parent of power," said El Hakim, "as valour supplies strength.

Listen to me.

Man is not as a tree, bound to one spot of earth; nor is he framed to cling to one bare rock, like the scarce animated shell-fish.

Thine own Christian writings command thee, when persecuted in one city, to flee to another; and we Moslem also know that Mohammed, the Prophet of Allah, driven forth from the holy city of Mecca, found his refuge and his helpmates at Medina." "And what does this concern me ?" said the Scot.
"Much," answered the physician.