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IN ASIATIC TURKEV 157
except the remnant that escapes to other lands.
There can be little doubt that about 200,000 of
them have been actually put to death by the Turks,
and I believe that fully four times as many have
either died of starvation and hardship, or have so
suffered from the unspeakable brutality to which
they have been subjected, that they can never again
be self-respecting men and women.
At present, in the western regions of Asia Minor,
the feeling is almost universal that the Moham-
medan revival in the east will, when it has done
its work there, be extended also to the west. The
Greeks are a far greater danger to the Turks than
the Armenians ever were. They have been less
submissive, more audacious, more inclined to re-
volt, more successful in asserting themselves against
the Turks. They will not long escape, when the
Armenians are exterminated and Orientalism is
once more supreme in the east, and they recognise
this; and no rational man, who judges of others
from a fair point of view, can blame them if they
attempt to forestall the fate intended for them.
But even in the eastern parts of Asia Minor
the Oriental spirit is doomed. The Kurds will
massacre as many Armenians as the Porte wishes,
but they will never be good Mohammedans or
subjects of the Sultan, except in outward show.
It remains to be seen whether they are capable
except the remnant that escapes to other lands.
There can be little doubt that about 200,000 of
them have been actually put to death by the Turks,
and I believe that fully four times as many have
either died of starvation and hardship, or have so
suffered from the unspeakable brutality to which
they have been subjected, that they can never again
be self-respecting men and women.
At present, in the western regions of Asia Minor,
the feeling is almost universal that the Moham-
medan revival in the east will, when it has done
its work there, be extended also to the west. The
Greeks are a far greater danger to the Turks than
the Armenians ever were. They have been less
submissive, more audacious, more inclined to re-
volt, more successful in asserting themselves against
the Turks. They will not long escape, when the
Armenians are exterminated and Orientalism is
once more supreme in the east, and they recognise
this; and no rational man, who judges of others
from a fair point of view, can blame them if they
attempt to forestall the fate intended for them.
But even in the eastern parts of Asia Minor
the Oriental spirit is doomed. The Kurds will
massacre as many Armenians as the Porte wishes,
but they will never be good Mohammedans or
subjects of the Sultan, except in outward show.
It remains to be seen whether they are capable