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From A Persian In London To His Correspondent In Bengal.
should remain neither wars nor battles , nor mantled cities , but there should be ratified a league of charity and perpetual peace from one end of the earth to another . Henceforth , they cried , there'shall neither be gate , nor rail , nor hedge ; but all things shall be common to all men— -the rich shall divide his overflowings with the poor ; and there shall be neither barter por exchange , nor moall shall work ~
• ney— , that none may toil ; and the happy shall labour a little , that the wretched may know repose ! So . the people believed in them , and rose together in a mi ghty wrath , and put the emperor to a violent death in the great court before the gardens of his haram , and the viziers , and the high priestsand the captains of the armies and manv emirs they stran
, ; - gled m hi gh places . But it came to pass , that the emperors of the other countries who were in friendship with him , made treaties and alliances together , and made a vow , and collected mi ghty fleets and armies to revenge the murder of the sultan . But the prophets cried again to the people , "'Go forth and conquer all the potentates of the earth " for it is with
; as you ,. so shall it be with ail nations ; for we have received assurances that there shall no more be master nor servant , nor one man o-reater than another in all the empires . And the people believed them . again , and girt the scymetar ; so they burst like a torrent into the
plains of the flat countries round them , and , as the prophets had . spoken , so behold it happened unto them ; for the generals fled out of the fortified cities , and the priests from the temples , and the nobles from the hi gh places ; so that there remained none to command , and none ever more powerful than another , but each did that which seemed good in his own eyes , according to the speeches which had been
declared . Now let not thy faith fail thee , for all these things are so . But the people did ' not according as they were told b y the prophets—nor did they live in friendshi p and brotherhood with the nation into which they overflowed , but they threw a yoke upon their necksand made spoil of their golden vessels and their
, , vessels of silver , and of their candlesticks , and of the images which " were in their mosques and temples , and in the houses of the priests and of the sacred virgins ; aiid they drove away their cattle , and sent away into their own land their corn and oil , and forage for their mules and their horses . So the prophets were exceeding ; wrath , and sorely rebuked the people ; but they would not turn the
ear , nor bend the neck to them ; but they chose a chieftian , and wen t forward to conquer another people beyond the first empire which they had ravaged . But now behold the princes rose together , and . quelled them with a mighty force , and drove them back with slaughter into their own fields , through all those provinces they had 'firsfroverrun ; and the men arose and expelled them with a o-reat revenge for the mischiefs they had brought upon them , and the evils they had wrought in the midst of their cities .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
From A Persian In London To His Correspondent In Bengal.
should remain neither wars nor battles , nor mantled cities , but there should be ratified a league of charity and perpetual peace from one end of the earth to another . Henceforth , they cried , there'shall neither be gate , nor rail , nor hedge ; but all things shall be common to all men— -the rich shall divide his overflowings with the poor ; and there shall be neither barter por exchange , nor moall shall work ~
• ney— , that none may toil ; and the happy shall labour a little , that the wretched may know repose ! So . the people believed in them , and rose together in a mi ghty wrath , and put the emperor to a violent death in the great court before the gardens of his haram , and the viziers , and the high priestsand the captains of the armies and manv emirs they stran
, ; - gled m hi gh places . But it came to pass , that the emperors of the other countries who were in friendship with him , made treaties and alliances together , and made a vow , and collected mi ghty fleets and armies to revenge the murder of the sultan . But the prophets cried again to the people , "'Go forth and conquer all the potentates of the earth " for it is with
; as you ,. so shall it be with ail nations ; for we have received assurances that there shall no more be master nor servant , nor one man o-reater than another in all the empires . And the people believed them . again , and girt the scymetar ; so they burst like a torrent into the
plains of the flat countries round them , and , as the prophets had . spoken , so behold it happened unto them ; for the generals fled out of the fortified cities , and the priests from the temples , and the nobles from the hi gh places ; so that there remained none to command , and none ever more powerful than another , but each did that which seemed good in his own eyes , according to the speeches which had been
declared . Now let not thy faith fail thee , for all these things are so . But the people did ' not according as they were told b y the prophets—nor did they live in friendshi p and brotherhood with the nation into which they overflowed , but they threw a yoke upon their necksand made spoil of their golden vessels and their
, , vessels of silver , and of their candlesticks , and of the images which " were in their mosques and temples , and in the houses of the priests and of the sacred virgins ; aiid they drove away their cattle , and sent away into their own land their corn and oil , and forage for their mules and their horses . So the prophets were exceeding ; wrath , and sorely rebuked the people ; but they would not turn the
ear , nor bend the neck to them ; but they chose a chieftian , and wen t forward to conquer another people beyond the first empire which they had ravaged . But now behold the princes rose together , and . quelled them with a mighty force , and drove them back with slaughter into their own fields , through all those provinces they had 'firsfroverrun ; and the men arose and expelled them with a o-reat revenge for the mischiefs they had brought upon them , and the evils they had wrought in the midst of their cities .