 And if that distinctive flavour cannot be had along with the material prosperity resulting from Anglo-Saxon energy, I must breathe the wish that this land may never know such prosperity... We do not live by bread alone, and British occupation does not give to the heart all the things for which it craves...The unwritten constitution, mightier than the written one, is in the heart of every man to make him still a republican and free with a freedom it would be hard to match anywhere else on the globe.The Bedouin himself is not so free, since he accords an almost superstitious reverence and implicit obedience to his sheikh.