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252, TRAVELS IN UPPER
of brutality. This horrid depravation, which, to
the disgrace of polished nations, is not altogether
unknown to them, is generally diffused over
Egypt: the rich and the poor are equally infected
with it; contrary to the effect which it produces in
colder countries, that of being exclusive, it is there
associated with the love of women. After having
glutted his favourite and criminal inclination, the
man of those countries retires to his harem, and
there hums a few grains of incense in honour of
Nature, to whom he has just been offering a
horrid outrage; and with what worship, spirit of
love, does he honour her ! Abominable sacrificcr,
he knows nothing of those gentle reciprocations
of affection, of that delicious oblivion, of those
ardent transports of two souls which understand
each other, and cleave to each other : no delicacy
in the accessories, no decency of arrangement,
nothing graceful in the details; all is brutal,
every thing wants animation, every thing is re^
stricted to physical propensity the most disgusting.
The outrages which the Egyptians offer to na»
ture do not stop there : other beings besides par*
take of their horrible favours, and their wives are
frequently in competition with the beasts of the
field, and postponed to them. The crime of
bestiality is familiar to those monsters under a
human form-; they ayow it with the most impu-
den$.
of brutality. This horrid depravation, which, to
the disgrace of polished nations, is not altogether
unknown to them, is generally diffused over
Egypt: the rich and the poor are equally infected
with it; contrary to the effect which it produces in
colder countries, that of being exclusive, it is there
associated with the love of women. After having
glutted his favourite and criminal inclination, the
man of those countries retires to his harem, and
there hums a few grains of incense in honour of
Nature, to whom he has just been offering a
horrid outrage; and with what worship, spirit of
love, does he honour her ! Abominable sacrificcr,
he knows nothing of those gentle reciprocations
of affection, of that delicious oblivion, of those
ardent transports of two souls which understand
each other, and cleave to each other : no delicacy
in the accessories, no decency of arrangement,
nothing graceful in the details; all is brutal,
every thing wants animation, every thing is re^
stricted to physical propensity the most disgusting.
The outrages which the Egyptians offer to na»
ture do not stop there : other beings besides par*
take of their horrible favours, and their wives are
frequently in competition with the beasts of the
field, and postponed to them. The crime of
bestiality is familiar to those monsters under a
human form-; they ayow it with the most impu-
den$.