Woman Between Islam and Western Society
1. A Survey
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carrying even a weight of ten kilos. Had it been less,
he points out, we should have been able to walk
about, carrying a weight with ease. But this
objection is ill-founded. It is entirely due to gravity
having the pull that it does, that our homes remain
firmly fixed to the ground. Had it been less, they
would have flown about like kites, and civilization,
as we know it would hardly have been possible.
It is fortunate that the order of the universe is not in
the hands of men. If it were, we should experience
intermittent tampering with the immutable laws of
nature. Gravity would wax and wane, the earth
would move nearer to or further from the sun and,
on the pretext that nature had been cruel to insects
in fixing the size of their breathing tubes, the said
creatures would be encouraged to grow to
elephantine proportions, thus filling the whole
earth with them. None of these developments
would, however, be encouraging to the human
species!
Luckily, man cannot effect such changes in the
universe, since he has no power over its ordering.
But he is free to act as he wills in his own world,
