[96] Op. cit., Tom. I, p. 18.
[97] Op. cit., p. 346 et seq.
[98] Tableau Général de l’Empire Ottoman, Tom. II, p. 217 (Paris, 1790).
[99] The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire, p. 117 (by H. A. Gibbons, New York, 1916).
[100] Freeman writes to the same effect when he declares “between renegades, Janissaries and the mothers of all nations, the blood of many a Turk must be physically anything rather than Turkish.” Op. cit., p. 187.
[101] A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, Vol. III, p. 475 (Oxford, 1877). Among these causes Finlay indicates three which deserve special attention. “First, the superiority of the Ottoman tribe over all contemporary nations in religious convictions and in moral and military conduct. Second, the number of different races which composed the population of the country between the Adriatic and the Black Sea, the Danube and the Ægean. Third, the depopulation of the Greek Empire, the degraded state of its judicial and civil administration and the demoralization of the Hellenic race.”
[102] Gibbons, op. cit., p. 173.
[103] No one is more familiar with the Ottoman people or their history than Professor William Ramsay who does not hesitate to declare: “It has almost always been by the strength and skill of Christian allies that the Turks have vanquished the Christians:
But Turkish force and Latin fraud
Would break their shield, however broad.”