The Burton Holmes lectures; . ern Rabat carpets, like Navajo blankets, havesuffered from the introduction of aniline dyes. The colorsare crude, the designs less artistic than in earlier local industry, once carried to perfection, is fast degen-erating, and Rabat rugs are no longer things of worth andbeauty. In all things the Moors have continually retrograded sincethe conquest of Granada. From one of the foremost, they have become almost the last of nations ;their arts, their sciences, their indus-tries forgotten, nothing remains tothem save their skill in horseman-ship, their braver
The Burton Holmes lectures; . ern Rabat carpets, like Navajo blankets, havesuffered from the introduction of aniline dyes. The colorsare crude, the designs less artistic than in earlier local industry, once carried to perfection, is fast degen-erating, and Rabat rugs are no longer things of worth andbeauty. In all things the Moors have continually retrograded sincethe conquest of Granada. From one of the foremost, they have become almost the last of nations ;their arts, their sciences, their indus-tries forgotten, nothing remains tothem save their skill in horseman-ship, their bravery in battle, and theirfixed belief in the predestination of allthings, good or evil. A crazy saint replied when we re-proached him for be-ing drunk with rum, It is no sin. It iswritten. Thosefatalistic words, Itis written— God haswilled it, have beenthe cause of Moorishretrogression. Theyhave robbed the peo-ple of ambition andenergy ; the Moor, intime of disaster,shifts the responsi-bility upon Allah, andmurmurs resignedly,. THE TALLEST HOUSE IN MOROCCO 3IO THE MOORISH EMPH^E
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