The latter implies an equal capacity for pleasure, and thus the balance is kept. Hâjî Abdû then proceeds to show that Faith is an accident of birth. One of his omitted distichs says:— Race makes religion; true! but aye upon the Maker acts the made, A finite God, and infinite sin, in lieu of raising man, degrade. In a manner of dialogue he introduces the various races each fighting to establish its own belief. The Frank (Christian) abuses the Hindu, who retorts that he is of Mlenchha, mixed or impure, blood, a term applied to all non-Hindus. The same is done by Nazarene and Mohammedan; by the Confucian, who believes in nothing, and by the Soofi, who naturally has the last word. The association of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph with the Trinity, in the Roman and Greek Churches, makes many Moslems conclude that Christians believe not in three but in five Persons. So an Englishman writes of the early Fathers, “They not only said that 3 = 1, and that 1 = 3: they professed to explain how that curious arithmetical combination had been brought about. The Indivisible had been divided, and yet was not divided: it was divisible, and yet it was indivisible; black was white and white was black; and yet there were not two colours but one colour; and whoever did not believe it would be damned.” The Arab quotation runs in the original:— _Ahsanu ’l-Makâni l’ il-Fat⠒l-Jehannamu_ The best of places for (the generous) youth is Gehenna. Gehenna, alias Jahim, being the fiery place of eternal punishment. And the second saying, _Al- nâr wa l⠒l-’Ar_—“Fire (of Hell) rather than Shame,”—is equally condemned by the Koranist. The Gustâkhi (insolence) of Fate is the expression of Umar-i-Khayyam (St. xxx):— What, without asking hither hurried _whence?_ And, without asking _whither_ hurried hence! Oh many a cup of this forbidden wine Must drown the memory of that insolence. Soofistically, the word means “the coquetry of the beloved one,” the divinæ particula auræ. And the section ends with Pope’s:— He can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. CONCLUSION Here the Hâjî ends his practical study of mankind. The image of Destiny playing with men as pieces is a view common amongst Easterns. His idea of wisdom is once more Pope’s:— And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. (Essay IV. 398.)