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Embroider slippers and cover marble palaces with a kind of lace veil : these things they can do ; and they understand perfectly, in especial, how to decorate with ornaments the large halls of state, in which the harem bathes; but real architecture they lack completely. How crazily they have disfigured the Hagia Sophia, that wonderful building in whose regular forms one hears, as it were, the rhythm of the proportions making music ! And then, if we enter, what a sight ! As Mecca lay in a south-s...outh-easterly direction, they have moved the prayer-niches away from the centre a great distance to the right. And all carpets, all church furniture, are now placed obliquely and turned towards that corner : we have the impres- sion that a crowd of drunk people has turned every- thing upside-down. That is the way in which Orientals meddle with the Christian world. Still more ridiculous was the attempt to obtain an entry into Turkey for the constitutional ideas of Western 'Europe. The presupposition necessary for § 14] THE THEOCEAOY 78 a constitutional State is absolutely lacking : a uniform nation.
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