But shortly afterwards the same gentleman set heaven and hell in motion because a pupil had used a statement in one of his lectures to base a treatise on. This innocent proceeding the "evangelist" stigmatised as theft, and he wished to annihilate the thief. The young man answered quite rightly that in that case people ought to be punished for "stealing" their knowledge out of manuals without acknowledgment, or that if they gave chapter and verse for every statement, a treatise would look like this: "Sum, 'I am' (Rabe's Grammar, 6th edition, Stockholm, 1858), called an auxiliary verb (_Sundelin Schwedische Sprachlehre_, Örebro, 1901), which indicates the passive voice (Sjoberg, _Logic_, Upsala, 1895)," and so on. This gentleman was a very severe moralist, although he could not take the word morality in his mouth. [Footnote 1: Oscar Wilde.] =Religious Heathen.=--Hardly anywhere are there such religious men as the Orientals. Five times a day the _muezzin_ calls from each minaret in eastern lands: "God is great! I bear witness that there is no God but God! I bear witness that Muhammed is the Apostle of God! Come to prayer! Come to salvation! God is great! There is no God but God!" Early in the morning they cry in addition, "Prayer is better than sleep." On the streets and market-places, in the shops and inns, everywhere one is summoned to prayer. Is it not impressive to see a whole people, of whom not one is ashamed of his God--not one! A people among whom, five times a day, this joyful message comes from the Lord, the All-Merciful, who "has not forsaken and has not repulsed thee!" And is it not uplifting in the midst of the severe and squalid tasks of every day to hear a voice from above witnessing, without attempting to convince, that God is God? Anything so perverse and stupid as free-thinking and atheism does not exist in the Orient. If anyone attempted to assert such an abominable tenet as the non-existence of God, he would be imprisoned or put to death. And if anyone came and tried to close the mosques ... but no one comes, for the mosques are never empty: "By the splendour of the day, By the darkness of the night, Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee, Neither hath He repelled thee."--_Koran_. That is the implicit and childlike faith which Christian heathen called "intolerance," "fanaticism," and so on. =The Pleasure-Garden.=--If the inexperienced man knew how much suffering a separation between a married pair involves, he would reflect before taking such a step. The two souls have so grown into each other, that the dissolution of the duplex personality which they form is the most painful operation possible. It is a kind of death. When one uproots the weeds round a flower, the flower fades away--partly because its roots are injured, partly because it has been deprived of shade, moisture, and support, or perhaps merely companionship.