astur will not be worth a date-stone. Our
ancestors,--they never bowed their proud neck to tyranny, whether
represented in an autocrat or in a body of autocrats; they never
betrayed their friends; they never soiled their fingers with the coin
of usury; they never sacrificed their manhood to fashion; they never
endangered in the cafes and lupanars their health and reason. The
Mosque and the Church, notwithstanding the ignorance and bigotry they
foster, are still better than lunatic asylums. And Europe can not have
enough of these to-day.

"Continence, purity of heart, fidelity, simplicity, a sense of true
manhood, magnanimity of spirit, a healthiness of body and mind,--these
are the beautiful ancient virtues. These are the supreme truths of the
Books of Revelation: in these consists the lofty spirituality of the
Orient. But through what thick, obscene growths we must pass to-day,
through what cactus hedges and thistle-fields we must penetrate,
before we rise again to those heights.

"'There can be no Revolution without a Reformation,' says a German
philosopher. And truly so. For the fetters which bind us can not be
shaken off, before the conscience is emancipated. A political
revolution must always be preceded by a spiritual one, that it might
have some enduring effect. Otherwise, things will revert to their
previous state of rottenness as sure as Allah lives. But mind you, I
do not say, Cut down the hedges; mow the thistle-fields; uproot the
obscene plants; no: I only ask you to go through them, and out of
them, to return no more. Sell your little estate there, if you have
one; sell it at any price: give it away and let the dead bury their
dead. Cease to work in those thorny fields, and God and nature will do
the rest.

"I am for a reformation by emigration. And quietly, peacefully, this
can be done. Nor fire, nor sword bring I: only this I say: Will and
do; resolve and act upon your resolution. The emigration of the mind
before the revolution of the state, my Brothers. The soul must be
free, and the mind, before one has a right to be a member of a free
Government, before one can justly enjoy his rights and perform his
duties as a subject. But a voting slave, O my Brothers, is the
pitifulest spectacle under the sun. And remember that neither the
Dastur, nor the Unionists, nor the Press, can give you this spiritual
freedom, if you do not awake and emigrate. Come up to the highlands:
here is a patrimony for each of yo