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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
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eaning custom. Why do you do thus ? you ask an Eastern. k Yahhawajah dadna ( O sir, it is our dadeh, our custom ),he replies. This custom binds their life with anadamantine chain; they cannot., dare not, will notchange. The thing is of God. A wicked man in theEast, like a wicked man here, will break every morallaw with impunity, but will never break the customs.Life in this way has become absolutely stereotypedand changeless ; and when we grasp what this meansto us, of Bible light to be found in Bible lands, we ofthe restless, ever-changing West may well exclaim, Blessed dadeh ! The poets say the female mind is fickle, and theysay it with perfect unanimity ; and it is the poets verylife to give true pictures of human motives and conduct.Very strongly does Sir Walter Scott put it when,poet-like, he is about to pay a high tribute to womanfor one of her tenderest and most beautiful traits, which 1 Palestine Explored, by James Neil, M.A. (Messrs. J. Nisbet &Co.), tenth edition, p. 16.
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ATAL (BURDEN-BEARER, OR PORTER) IN ZION STREET, JERUSALEM 22 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS he sets off and enhances by bringing one of her foibles forward first : O Woman ! in our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou ! With fashions of female attire changing almostevery month, can we possibly doubt the poets im-peachment ? What, then, will our readers think, whenwe state the simple, unquestioned, and, to Europeans,extraordinary fact that the bulk of women in Palestine,the Fellahhat, or village women, as to colour to ashade, as to material to a perfect match, as to style tothe least particular, dress as their great-great-great-grandmothers dressed before them ! Now, if the dressof woman has not changed in all the ages, we maywell believe in the changelessness of the rest ! Again, on the many mural inscriptions on monu-ments in Egypt, Assyria, and Palestine, some

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