"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٤‎٠] (٣٩٠/٦١)

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leagued against them; their faith is the ground
of all their acts; in the strength of it they
decree justice, organize satrapies, improve the
tillage of the land, and constitute one of those
mighty monarchies in which we recognize the
character, strength, and spirit of Asia. In
these monarchies everything depends upon the
central power, or rather upon the earnestness
with which the central power confesses its sub
jection to a gracious and beneficent Power, in
whose name it rules and fights. The inscrip
tions which Major Hawlinson has recently in
terpreted, show how remarkably this was the
case with Darius Ilystaspes: they embody the
very spirit of the Zerduscht reformation, and
might almost tempt us to the notion—a
favourite with some German critics (not, how
ever, it seems to us, compatible with any of
the popular traditions)—that he was identical
with the Prophet. He no doubt realized the
conception of the teacher much more than any
mere teacher could have realized it. His order
was that attempt to imitate the order of the
heavenly bodies, the calmness and regularity of
Nature, which one who looked upon light as