From the excellent blog basement :
" consider Turkey as it was the reign of Francis I, as a useful power in our politics is subtract three centuries of history.
Pretending civilize Turkey giving steamboats and railroads, by disciplining his army, not extending civilization in the East, is to introduce the barbarism in the West of Ibrahims future will bring the future to the time of Charles Martel, or the time of the siege of Vienna ... I must say that I was the only one with Benjamin Constant, to report the improvidence of Christian governments: a people whose order Company is founded on slavery and polygamy is a people need to refer to the Mongol steppes.
It is difficult to predict the behavior of a race of humans who have no European ideas. Both cunning as slaves and haughty as tyrants, anger is never home tempered by fear.
In principle great civilization, the human species can only gain from the destruction of the Ottoman Empire: thousand times better for the peoples of the cross domination in Constantinople as the Crescent ... all the germs social destruction are in the religion of Mohammed. is said that the present Sultan has made strides toward civilization ... Since when rote learning weapons is it civilization? It's a huge mistake, it's almost a crime, for having initiated the Turks in the science of our tactics.
You do not want to plant the Cross on St. Sophia? Continue to discipline hordes of Turks, Albanians, Negroes and Arabs, and before twenty years perhaps, the crescent will shine on St. Pierre. will call you then Europe in a crusade against the infidel armed with plague, slavery and the Koran? It will be too late . "
Pretending civilize Turkey giving steamboats and railroads, by disciplining his army, not extending civilization in the East, is to introduce the barbarism in the West of Ibrahims future will bring the future to the time of Charles Martel, or the time of the siege of Vienna ... I must say that I was the only one with Benjamin Constant, to report the improvidence of Christian governments: a people whose order Company is founded on slavery and polygamy is a people need to refer to the Mongol steppes.
It is difficult to predict the behavior of a race of humans who have no European ideas. Both cunning as slaves and haughty as tyrants, anger is never home tempered by fear.
In principle great civilization, the human species can only gain from the destruction of the Ottoman Empire: thousand times better for the peoples of the cross domination in Constantinople as the Crescent ... all the germs social destruction are in the religion of Mohammed. is said that the present Sultan has made strides toward civilization ... Since when rote learning weapons is it civilization? It's a huge mistake, it's almost a crime, for having initiated the Turks in the science of our tactics.
You do not want to plant the Cross on St. Sophia? Continue to discipline hordes of Turks, Albanians, Negroes and Arabs, and before twenty years perhaps, the crescent will shine on St. Pierre. will call you then Europe in a crusade against the infidel armed with plague, slavery and the Koran? It will be too late . "
Chateaubriand, Memoires d'outre-tombe, Letter to Madame Recamier, 1828.
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