This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...of profligacy as easily and with as little effort or feeling of shock, as when first he entered on it. He has no remorse for the ill-spent past, and no self-laudation for the well-spent present in these matters; on three points alone is he accessible to anything like real feeling--family ties, politics, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...of profligacy as easily and with as little effort or feeling of shock, as when first he entered on it. He has no remorse for the ill-spent past, and no self-laudation for the well-spent present in these matters; on three points alone is he accessible to anything like real feeling--family ties, politics, and money. In a word, he has no subjective conscience; and often, thanks to his clergy, of whom more hereafter, very little objective. Well or ill conducted, however, married or single, the Greek has no taste for literature, ancient or modern, beyond that contained in a political newspaper or a pamphlet; these are the limits of his reading; history, poetry, science, art, all lie beyond his range. Of the annals of the very country he lives in--of the religion, customs, studies, and even the laws of his Mahometan neighbours--he is almost wholly or wholly ignorant; some stereotyped tales of Turkish oppression and of apocryphal martyrs are all that he can impart; and even to these a recent date is commonly assigned. Of the political side of Europe he knows a little; of its other aspects next to nothing. The clergy form no exception in these matters. In religion, those among ourselves who sympathise with the Greek might be somewhat disagreeably startled, were they aware how little he sympathises with them. True, he is deeply superstitious and furiously bigoted against all strange creeds, Mahometan, Latin, Armenian, all much alike, perhaps the Latin most of all; but he has no deep belief, none of th$ intense confidence of the Mahometan in God's providence. Greek levity and gossiping in Church, and during prayers, contrasts strangely with the respectful propriety of Turks and Arabs in their mosques; the religion of the Greek is a party badge; a thing of...
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