Excerpt from The Commercial Future of Palestine: Debate at the Article Club, Opened by Mr. Israel Zangwill, November 20, 1901 But many centuries earlier, while Rome itself was an obscure village, Isaiah was denouncing the luxury of his people.

It is not a primitive, pastoral people whose ladies are lashed by Isaiah for walking with stretched out necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. Peasants have not these changeable suits of apparel, the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses and the fine linen, the hoods and the veils.

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