ABSTRACT
WHEN the Arabs marched into foreign countries they were still primitive. Unaffected by external influences, which could scarcely reach their home-land—difficult of access and practically detached from the world—they retained their distinctive racial characteristics. Undaunted courage, pride, keen sense of nationality, abounding vitality, a spirit of irrepressible adventure—all these they possessed, and in a striking manner. In other words, their qualities were those which we find in a people on the threshold of a promising historic career—but in a marked degree.
