Excerpt from Scenes in the Thirty Days War Between Greece Turkey, 1897 There was a. General opinion, at any rate, that, whether something was done or not, the days of the Turkish Empire were numbered. The Sultan appeared to have been smitten by that insanity which is known to precede de struction by heaven; and it was therefore illogically argued that heaven wished to destroy him. People who hesitated to stake a penny on the protection of the helpless, found justi fication in the text, Vengeance is mine: I will repay, saith the Lord, and in leaving further action to a higher power they chose a course which seemed to them at once secure, inevitable, and cheap. Turkey had been so long reported rotten as well as cruel that many supposed it would fall to pieces of itself, and it seemed hardly worth while to interfere when the punishment for crime was working itself out so satisfactorily without our aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.