Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine: Of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art; January to April, 1861 Such is a brief sketch of the life and death of the divinity of the Druses - a blood-stained, capricious, im pious monster, whose career furnishes them with exam ples of almost every folly, excess, and crime that can disgrace humanity. The relentless cruelty which they have shown during the recent massacres is but the natural result of their false and impious creed - but an imitation of the intolerant and persecuting spirit displayed by their deity, more than eight centuries ago, in Egypt and Syria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.