The Burton Holmes lectures; . The struggle for existence isalmost a silent struggle. Moreover, I believe that Fez isin a higher state of civilization, and that its people are lessgiven to crime than are the dwellers in the poorer quarters ofLondon, Paris, and New York. It is safe for a Moorish 2l8 FEZ citi/en to walk these crowded streets by day ; at night hesleeps securely in his home. There is no iiagrant immorality,yet there is no rejs^ular police. The streets of Fez can never cease to astonish men fromthe modern world. We may have seen similar settings onthe stage, similar costumes in pict
The Burton Holmes lectures; . The struggle for existence isalmost a silent struggle. Moreover, I believe that Fez isin a higher state of civilization, and that its people are lessgiven to crime than are the dwellers in the poorer quarters ofLondon, Paris, and New York. It is safe for a Moorish 2l8 FEZ citi/en to walk these crowded streets by day ; at night hesleeps securely in his home. There is no iiagrant immorality,yet there is no rejs^ular police. The streets of Fez can never cease to astonish men fromthe modern world. We may have seen similar settings onthe stage, similar costumes in pictures or museums ; so theseare not new to us. What astonishes us is that these thingsshould anywhere form a part of the actual daily life of menand women of our own time. And this life does not eventouch our life ; its points of contact with the outside worldare few. Commercial Fez communicates with the mysteriousregions of the south, with Senegambia and Timbuktoo, bymeans of camel tieets that traverse seas of sand. This com-. riii;Ki; is no noisi-. in 11/ FEZ 219
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