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424 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
Thomas Carlyle calls the Koran " the confused ferment of a great, rude human soul ;
rude, untutored, that cannot even read ; but fervent, earnest, struggling vehemently to utter
itself in words; " and says of Mohammedanism : " Call it not false, look not at the falsehood
of it; look at the truth of it. For these twelve centuries it has been the religion and life-
A BEDOUIN OF THE HAUKAN.
Bedouins (more correctly Bedawin) occupy the north-west district of the Hauran ; the plain is inhabited by peasants, and the Druses for many
centuries have colonised the mountain range.
guidance of the fifth part of the whole kindred of mankind. Above all, it has been a religion
heartily believed." But with all his admiration, Carlyle confesses that the reading of the
Koran in English is " as toilsome a task " as he ever undertook. " A wearisome, confused
jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement, insupportable
Thomas Carlyle calls the Koran " the confused ferment of a great, rude human soul ;
rude, untutored, that cannot even read ; but fervent, earnest, struggling vehemently to utter
itself in words; " and says of Mohammedanism : " Call it not false, look not at the falsehood
of it; look at the truth of it. For these twelve centuries it has been the religion and life-
A BEDOUIN OF THE HAUKAN.
Bedouins (more correctly Bedawin) occupy the north-west district of the Hauran ; the plain is inhabited by peasants, and the Druses for many
centuries have colonised the mountain range.
guidance of the fifth part of the whole kindred of mankind. Above all, it has been a religion
heartily believed." But with all his admiration, Carlyle confesses that the reading of the
Koran in English is " as toilsome a task " as he ever undertook. " A wearisome, confused
jumble, crude, incondite; endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement, insupportable