Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society N.S.:V.11 (1898)
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society N.S.:V.11 (1898)
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It required profounder brains than theirs to tell why Christian England trained her cannon upon them, whose only crime was, long- ing to be free ! When Greece at last, wrought to sympathetic frenzy, drew her sword in a cause that to her was holy, she did not find for her warfare that most sacred right of all con- testants, fair play and an open field. Through seventy years she has been the football of European diplomacy and is so still. Yet history presents no sublimer spectacle than Greece, he...edless of cost, reckless of consequences, in delirious yet almost hopeless battle, throwing herself, with feet and hands half tied, upon the mighty Mussulman oppressor of her kin. It was not prudent, it was not sagacious or discreet ; yet such grandeur of rashness and folly ennobles the race, and streams a little light upon a sordid world. During the last few years, the press, the pulpit, the human conscience, have denounced the barba- rism and the inhumanity of the Turk. Greece alone has dared to beard him !
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