On the one hand, the hard experience of daily existence; on the other hand, the soul crying out that the things of this world are not the true realities.

Savage vices make savage virtues.

God and man are brought face to face._ _In the heart of Morocco there is one man who lives a life that is like a hymn, appealing to God against tyranny and corruption and shame.

This great soul is the leader of a vast following which has come to him from every scoured and beaten corner of the land.

His voice sounds throughout Barbary, and wheresoever men are broken they go to him, and wheresoever women are fallen and wrecked they seek the mercy and the shelter of his face.