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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 burns 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 sacrificer, 

 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 

 fruman form; they avow it with the most impu- 

 dent 



