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Prophet, like a secret monitor, that intellectual food alone was in- 

 sufficient for beings compounded of soul and body. Convinced 

 of this, he only followed, without knowing it, the example of Zeno, 

 Epicurus, and Aristotle, by adapting his system and religion to 

 his own temperament and inclinations. Love and dominion were 

 the passions of the Prophet, so he determined they should go hand 

 in hand ; and resolved that the diet and beverage of his disciples 

 should neither impair the vigour of the body nor the faculties of 

 the mind. But, as the frailty of human nature had ordained 

 repose both to the statesman and hero, he contrived that the 

 allurements of pleasure should not interrupt the hours of business, 

 and that women should be the solace of mankind only in the 

 hours of retirement and relaxation, without superadding to the 

 toils of public life the anxiety and perturbation of the absent 

 lover. For, however dull and inanimate society may appear to the 

 votaries of pleasure, deprived of this genial source of all our delights, 

 yet the philosopher and statesman, viewing pleasure as a secondary 

 motive, may think the exclusion of women an advantage to the 

 cold system of wisdom and policy, Nam fuit ante Helenam belli 

 teterrima causa amor; which the subsequent ages of the world have, 

 and do confirm/' 



From Brodera and Meah Gaum, we travelled westward, through 

 the Jamboseer and Ahmood purgunnas: having already described 

 those districts and their respective capitals, I shall not resume the 

 subject. Almost every part of the Brodera purgunna evinced its 

 former beauty, in topes of mango and tamarind trees, tastefully 

 planted near mosques, mausoleums, and other remains of Mogul 

 splendor, now in a state of dilapidation. The abundance of 



