This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... European group that has followed a very individual development of its own, and produced a voluminous, though chiefly ecclesiastical, literature. Finally there is the common tradition of a political independence which endured almost unbroken for twelve centuries, and occasionally played a decisive part ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... European group that has followed a very individual development of its own, and produced a voluminous, though chiefly ecclesiastical, literature. Finally there is the common tradition of a political independence which endured almost unbroken for twelve centuries, and occasionally played a decisive part in the history of the World. Unhappily this tradition was extinguished more than eight centuries ago. Since then the only administrative bond uniting the Armenian people has been the organisation of their national Church, and the nation's history has resembled that of the Jews. The Armenians in Dispersion have prospered exceedingly. They have shown an adaptability capable of assimilating European ways of life, not merely the social superficialities achieved by the Young Turks, but the solid foundations of spiritual ideas and technical skill; and they have found the energy to turn their acquisitions to account by rivalling and even outstripping their European teachers in the economic exploitation of the Nearer East. Their recent evolution has bridged the gulf between Asiatic and European, and, like the rise of Japan, tends to prove that the contrast between "Oriental " and " Occidental " does not express underlying difference of temperament so much as difference of phase in an identical process of growth. Japan, however, in her awakening has mainly utilised the political line of advance, while the political condition of the Armenian peasant who has stayed at home in his native mountain-valleys, has steadily been going from bad to worse. Moslem government has given the advantage to his Moslem neighbours from the Zagros mountains on the South-East, the quite barbarous nomadic Kurdish clans; and during the last generation of the nineteenth...
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