The Reconstruction of Poland and the Near East (Volume 445); Problems of Peace (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... EUROPE AND ISLAM In the fourteenth century, the West had already begun to try to impose its commerce, its customs, its laws, and its religion on the East. There was not, nor has there ever been since, a sympathetic "give and take" between Occident and Orient. In a mint, if the coin when stamped does not correspond exactly to the mold, it is rejected. Similarly the West, when it tries to put every Eastern people through its mold and finds no exact correspondence, rejects. Hence, on the one side, the scorn of assumed superiority: on the other side, a hatred not only born of fear and of conviction of inferiority in material things, but of a sense of injustice which is none the less vital from a knowledge that the wrong is not, and will not be, righted.--The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire, page 132. "TVURING the thousand years between "the battle of Tours and the battle of Vienna, which marked the extreme advance of Islam in western and eastern Europe, Mohammedan states and Mohammedan races were a constant menace to the security and prosperity of Europe, because of their military strength, their control of the Mediterranean, and the temptation alliance with them afforded to European states to strike at one another to the detriment of Christianity and civilization. In the decadence of Islam, Mohammedan states have remained a menace to the development of European civilization and to international harmony and understanding. Their flags no longer float on the Mediterranean. Their military power is broken. But their very impotence makes them more dangerous than ever before. They are more susceptible to diplomatic intrigues. Their defenselessness has kept whetted the territorial appetite of the European Powers. Some choice morsels have already been devoured: Russia was ...