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 64 ''fanaticism. All civilized nations will unanimously stand together against any such attempt." I could quote reams of print with similar contents; I content myself with one more: Islâm is a religion of hate and of war. It must not be suffered to be the ruling principle in a nation of the civilized world.''"

I could quote at least as many utterances of the same author which give the impression that the Turks are the nation least fitted in all the Turkish Empire to do any good for the development of their country. Everywhere, where the Turkish element had obtruded itself on other Mohammedans at the point of the sword, it has ‘"destroyed cultural possessions and has created nothing, absolutely nothing, in the way of cultural values." Their religious conceit is even more intolerable than their national conceit. The Turks of Constantinople are "an awful pack" ("ein schauderhaftes Gesindel") and the