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He did not destroy with savagery, he rather ne- glected all that he could afford to neglect. Here also he cut down timber, but he did not replant. Here also he let the water-pipes of the Romans run dry. Here also the Arab, who apparently achieved nothing material, imposed a command more powerful than the compulsion of any government or the fear of any conqueror : he sowed broadcast his religion and his language ; his harvest grew at once ; first it hid and at last it stifled the religion S3 The... Arabic Influence and the language he had found. The speech, and the faith which renders thai speech sacred, transformed the soul of Barbary : they oppose between them a barrier to the recon- quest more formidable by far than were the steppes and the nomads to the first advance of Rome. Of this impalpable veil which is spread between the native population and the new settlers the traveller is more readily aware in the little cities of the hills than in the larger towns of the coast. The external change of the last generation is apparent : the houses about him are European houses ; the roads might be roads in France or Northern Italy.
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