There is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians.
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.
It is my opinion that whatever is the custom of a nation, and is practiced by the first characters of that nation towards their chief, cannot degrade strangers who perform the same.
Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.
I ask you, as a citizen, is it a crime to go to the temple? And if I am propagating superstition by going to the temple, then the whole country is propagating superstition.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
