The Christians of Turkey Their Condition Under Mussulman Rule
The Christians of Turkey Their Condition Under Mussulman Rule
Denton William
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I trust we shall for the future show less credulous confidence in our blind guides. This notion is getting too absurd to be maintained any longer. It is hardly worthy of serious refutation. Men may in desperation rush from grievous tyranny to some milder form of despotism, because unable to achieve their entire freedom ; but races half eman- cipated, provinces virtually independent, are not prone to immolate themselves, and to quench their young life, by voluntary submission to a new * 'In the ...Crimean War the Servians resisted every attempt to induce them to arm against the Turks in favour of Russia. . . They steadily refused to take part in any war against Turkey, and remained faithful throughout the war to the Suzerain power. ' Speech oj A. H. Layard, Esq. Murray, 1863. 80 THE CHRISTIANS OF TURKEY. master. History gives us no instances of such madness, and we can but appeal to experience on such a matter. Let us therefore dismiss this delu- sion to the limbo of ghosts, as a bugbear which may be useful to terrify children, but which ought to be powerless to make men turn aside from the path of right ; for in fact, the notion that Servia, that Bul- garia, Bosnia, or Asia Minor, have secret relations with Russia, is so evidently a delusion, that it does not allow of serious argument.
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