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258 THE GREEKS IN ASIATIC TURKEY
of both races on your staff; and it has always
seemed to me that " the Turks and the Greeks will
united make a happier country than either race
could by itself". So I wrote in 1890, and so I
still think.
Take the two great wants in the life of the
Turks, as they have been repeatedly brought out
in these pages. They receive no rational or
systematic training, whether moral or intellectual ;
but the strongest quality of the Greeks, and their
greatest achievement in the world, greater even
than their art, their poetry, or their science, has
been their love for education and their careful
provision for it in their cities.1 The Turkish
women grow up in such circumstances as to dwarf
their intellectual faculties and to enfeeble or per-
vert their moral qualities, so that they are quite
unfit to communicate any proper bent and training
to their children's minds. The ancient population
of Asia Minor, on the contrary, gave an unusually
high position and influence to women ; - and it is
Mohammedanism that has destroyed the old re-
spect shown to them ; but among the Greeks, as I
have said, p. 49, the women of the peasant classes
seemed to me better than the men.
In union and amalgamation of the races, then
1 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, i., p. 440.
2 Church in the Roman Empire, pp. 67, 403.
of both races on your staff; and it has always
seemed to me that " the Turks and the Greeks will
united make a happier country than either race
could by itself". So I wrote in 1890, and so I
still think.
Take the two great wants in the life of the
Turks, as they have been repeatedly brought out
in these pages. They receive no rational or
systematic training, whether moral or intellectual ;
but the strongest quality of the Greeks, and their
greatest achievement in the world, greater even
than their art, their poetry, or their science, has
been their love for education and their careful
provision for it in their cities.1 The Turkish
women grow up in such circumstances as to dwarf
their intellectual faculties and to enfeeble or per-
vert their moral qualities, so that they are quite
unfit to communicate any proper bent and training
to their children's minds. The ancient population
of Asia Minor, on the contrary, gave an unusually
high position and influence to women ; - and it is
Mohammedanism that has destroyed the old re-
spect shown to them ; but among the Greeks, as I
have said, p. 49, the women of the peasant classes
seemed to me better than the men.
In union and amalgamation of the races, then
1 Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, i., p. 440.
2 Church in the Roman Empire, pp. 67, 403.