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IS 158.2
Story of an Emigrant.
stimulates him to acquire wealth; for that would only give
the tax-gatherer a pretext for extra extortions. Miserable
Egypt! I have seen much poverty and much misery among
men; but of everything I have seen in that line nothing can
be compared with the wretched condition of the Egyptian
fellah.
Still these unfortunate people seem to find happiness in
their religion. Here some one might object that this is a
FELLAII HIT.
wretclied happiness, because their religion is
Mohammedanism or Islatnism. Man feels himself drawn to a higher
power. No matter what his condition, lie longs for a life after
this, and searches after an object for his worship, and when
he has found this object he will give up his life rather than
give up his faith. And still that object for which a person
or a nation is willing to sacrifice even life itself is ridiculed
and despised by another person and another nation. If the
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