were  wanting,  and  every  day  renewed  the  same  be-
wildering luxuriance  of  leafage,  blossom,  and  fruit
throughout  the  year,  was  subject  to  these  transforming
conditions.  We  should  naturally  expect  that  these
hardy  mountaineers,  sweeping  down  from  their  cool
eyries  in  the  Hindu  Kuh  and  Kashmir,  into  a  land
wherein

"  the  languid  air  did  swoon,
Breathing  like  one  that  had  a  heavy  dream,
A  land  where  all  things  always  seemed  the  same,"  —

would  lose  intellectual  muscle  and  nerve.  The  colos-
sal unity  and  simplicity  of  movement  in  the  natural
world  would  be  reflected  in  their  mental  processes ;
and  an  atmosphere  heavy  with  perfumes  would  lull
them  to  rest  in  mystical  reverie.
