text:  The child brought up by his slave-mother--never experiencing a father's caress and afterwards estranged by the Arabian alphabet (education ) hides his feelings in his own heart even from his companions; from his childhood thinks only for himself; from the first beard are every door every heart shut for him: husbands look askance at him women fly from him as from a wild beast and the first and most innocent emotions of his heart the first voice of nature the first movements of his feelings--all these have become crimes in the eyes of Mahometan superstition