[387] Ibid., p. xxvii.
[388] "Trav.'s Narr.," pp. 342-343.
[389] Browne's "A Year Among the Persians," p. 530. "If, instead of talking in this violent and unreasonable manner, you would produce the 'Bayan,' of which ever since I came to Persia I have been vainly endeavouring to obtain a copy."
[390] Its authors were Mirza Husain of Hamadan, M. Abul Fazl, and Manakji.
[391] Numerous magazine articles, and even the "Life of Abbas Effendi" have been written by Bahais, as if they were outsiders making observations.
[392] In his Introduction (pp. xxxii.-v.) to Mirza Jani, which he has had printed in Persian, Professor Browne says, "But for Count Gobineau it would have perished utterly. This fact is very instructive, that so important a work could be successfully suppressed," and "that the adherents of a religion could connive at such an act of suppression and falsification of evidence." "This fact is established by the clearest evidence."
[393] "New Hist.," p. xxix.
[394] Ibid., pp. xiv., xxxi.
[395] Ibid., p. xiv.
[396] "Encyc. Brit.," article, Babism.