194 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



whether I feel more grieved or angry that my country- 

 men have paid greater heed to the gambling require- 

 ments of bookmakers, jockeys, and stable-boys, 

 almost to the ruin of the nation, than to the pre- 

 cepts, the learning, the wisdom, and the experience, 

 of forty centuries of so great a people. 



