Lives of the Lords Strangford, With Their Ancestors And Contemporaries Through Ten Generations
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Eecent events have shown how accurate his perceptions were, and in how prophetic a spirit he had 'forecast the crisis to which events were tending. It requires, however, a closer study of his writings than is usually given to contributions to the public press to understand his political creed. Because he always opposed that unreasoning predilection for the Hellenic race prevalent among certain classes, and founded partly upon classical association and partly upon religious sympathies, he was so...metimes denounced as a fanatical believer in the Turk. Never was a charge more groundless. No one had a more clear insight into the defects of Turkish character and Turkish rule ; no one had more emphatically condemned those vices in their systems of government which, in his opinion, if not eradi- cated, threatened their extinction as a European power. Writing to a friend not long before his death, he said, " I am an anti ^iXeX\r]v, but I am a pro ikopa)iiaia-." This distinction is not always intelligible to people who talk glibly on the "Eastern question," and who conclude ' In an article in the Pall Mall Gazette (12tli May, 1866) he gave public expression to these views, and says : " The great weight deservedly attached everywhere, more especially abroad, to the words he utters on the rare occasions he addresses the House, indicates him unmistakably as the genuine and naturally selected Nestor of foreign politics." THE EASTERN QUESTION.
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