whose faces and bodies the beauty of the statues is reflected. And the Parisians have, in their speech and their movements, the grace of actors and people of art.

All this stands in contrast with the art of the Arab East, which is almost devoid of painted and sculpted beauty, and confines itself to building distinguished by orna-ment of plant forms and geometric lines (the arabesque). As for Beirut — we set up the statue of the Martyrs, and "God spared the believers the fighting"...

The Europeans are no less greedy than the Easterners, and no less eager to hunt money from the tourists, especially after this war in which they tasted hunger and cold. But they do it with tact and art. Their prices are fixed, however high. The seller sets his prices, so there is no way to waste time in haggling, arguing, and deadly chatter...

And the tourist's personal freedom is safeguarded and respected: there is no one who stares at you long, no one who bothers you with questions, no one who says to you: Who are you? Where do you come from? What is your religion and your sect? Etc.

Among all the men and women I met, no one asked me my religious confession except a Turkish tourist and two tourists from Pakistan. So I said to myself: here is the reli-gious mentality, one of the marks of the Easterners. They put their religion in their mouths instead of keeping it in their hearts, as Naimy said.

There is another thing that the American tourists notice, and whoever has known American civilization: France, and Europe generally, are old countries — old in their buildings, old in their monuments; they have not yet cast off the garment of age, nor do they wish to cast it off, for it is one of the sources of their charm.

There are palaces with columns

and marble staircases of enormous size that have been turned into hotels or company offices; their beautiful marble does not sit well with the mechanical elevators, nor the spaciousness of their rooms and courts with the modern means of comfort and speed. I set down here some remarks of American tourists: "This hotel is beautiful to look at, but it is more like the building of a Roman tomb than of a hotel... And this huge mirror beside the enormous brass bed... no doubt it once adorned some hall of the Tuileries or of Malmaison."

One American lady tourist said to me: "In New York, screens of mesh are much used on doors and windows as protection against

flies and insects; here I find no trace of them." Another said: "The French content themselves with eating meat and drinking wine, and neglect water and milk products, which are the mainstay of a healthy diet."

From these remarks I wish to arrive at the following conclusion: the Europeans have not yet reached the level of the Americans in the use of the machine and in har-nessing it for man's comfort and well-being. They still run behind them in the field of applied science, such as mechanics and industrial chemistry — because they are less wealthy than they, and more deeply marked

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