Mohammedan Sensualism

No one of the Mohammedan race} haa carried out the Ucease given to sensual passion by the Koran and the adhering tradition to such an extent as have the Ottoman Turks, and no race has suffered so much f rom that license. The evil consequences are far-reaching and halef ui in the extreme. It is to feed Turkish sensuality that the slave trade. throughout the empire and in the interior of África is maintained. The beautif ui, fair daughters who are purchased from the Georgiana and Circassians also flnd their way at last to the harems of Constantinople, Brusa, Smyrna, Adrianople, Aleppo, Bagdad, and other towns and cities of Asia Minor. One of the direct results of this sensuality is that the Turks have degenerated physically during the past 200 years. That the conquerors of Constantinople were a hardy race of great physical strength there can be no doubt; that the great majority of modern Turks are of an effeminate type is equally certain; very many of them are persons of flne appearance, but they are physically weak, without elasticity, giving the impression of men who have lost their vitality. The same may be said even more emphatically of Turkish women; they are small in stature, of a tickly complexion, easily fatlgued by slight exertion, and become prematurely old. After the age of 40 all feminine beauty is gone; the eyes have become sunken, the cheeks hollow, and the face wrinkled, and there remains no trace of the activity and physical strength often seen in English women of 65 or even of 70 years of age. Anöther immediate result of the prevailing sensuality is the mental imbecility of multitudes of the Ottoman Turks; great numbers among them are intellectually slupid. Many even of the young men have the vacant look which borders close on the idiotie state. Severe mental application is for them almost a physical impossibility. It is well known that in all branches of business where considerable mental activity ia required the Turks employ christians to work for them. This is owing, not so much to a lack of education, or to a general want of energy, as in many cases to a mental incapacity which oiten aniounts to real imbecility. Obvious illustrations of the special topics now discussed is f urnished by the royal family itself. Sultan Mejid, Sultan Aziz, and the deposed Sultan Murad were all men of depraved minds, vicious liabits, in températe and sensual ia the extreme, and were alike devoid of moral character and mental capacity. Mental incapacity, however, from the causes alleged is not conflned by any means to the wealthy and aristocratie classes; it Í3 found in all grados of oiety.-