lavelaye

Updated: July 28, 2025

M. de Lavelaye, who studied the condition of things in Turkey not long after the war of 1877-78, thus summed up the causes of the social and political decline of the Turks: The true Mussulman loves neither progress, novelty, nor education; the Koran is enough for him.

John Holland Rose - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)