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JJJLVXNG- G REECE . toa-ISrieeVeMmpoH'ine . ^ B ! « r « d « H « id ^ b ( , wt . : Paris : ; HaohBtte It is necessary at length to admiti Modern Greece as al living enti ^ mto otn SueStions . ; % lessea or cursed with a German krn ^ and a native SjiaWt , -a Tforogn court arid a jaational debt- ^ despite the fleeting J ^« r * of . » WP *^ o . «? to-doubt , SerVitaiUy uBta-eoawnoed Muxotfby that great fact called " combmed ^ Soeupaiiie ^ : " xTtoeu ^ mketoMev ^ UmBelftobe of . glass was not undeaCoiw 3 & tiL'kisiftiefl ( i * A «»« dCed : drim . dovuiuaad heldJiim . iMany Oreeks , who « w « o # ftoao « to- ^» r ^ 4 Jwse ^ h « dft 3 r- * g « m « r * i ^ alwrs" - « reinastate of tem-TOra * y ^ esto » r—how speak of il ^ r < smintry m >&• tmiQ ^ ^^^ ive pimie , yAnHSr-navM fee rnnusiag-if it did ntot-snggeBt meltmchdlyTdflectjons . ^ There-neycr-WM-a- « roret ) bBtinnte feeta thatf that of « nihelk « ism . We * CaTc ely' 1 cnow . awnjrfe genuine . convert . When once a man adopts that Axeed it iriflttences liS mind for ever ^ noanatter what are hisdisapporntments 4 uid--miiicalculttfion « . There are hundreds of , people who speak of Greece , arith <« all .. tl » e bitterness of Iovbxb talking-of the . mistress who has rejected 4 h « m , tout « bo « akeici « e * o market . the wHuae time . that theyare xeadv to einiuLtoJhpokd fcJly atavwiord or .. ft * tgri . tXhis seema at > fir « tanexphcaWe ; xfop ^ eJModem Gceek ^ ihough ftoything but the ritf & in ; hft 4 » s been some-J * ima » V « i «( t « d , 'is-W noiBieams , when- « wmifiarly Jmown , a lovable uidiwidnal . «» - *« tenfleeBotwm , his fecliefin Ws ^ rni eupetwrity—oont i . aBfcod'Wi * h liis imifcbio pbKtrcal position and imperfect intellectuhl cuUure—wo « ld appear ^ calcnittted to repel the -very -men you most -persevermg ly admirepthe -a » findd . and classically educated . But these dupes—wer shall presently re-¦ Jrtrict ' the . meaning d £ that word—move in a medium of their own , through which they see the world ^ clothed in certain unroarcolours , aiid are often as 4 iw » ttftbJeif-diBtin « uwhiac iheoxoollencep of the , p » eseqt timo . as tiie defects M > f thTpeiriod < Aat marked its lapse by Olympi » da . To them -names are tiMAga ; asxd it would -be Jtbaund A-om / this torargue their imbecjUty . ixroat ¦ tttAwatsiniail departanontoiiave tbe-aome fault , without whioh they would i * e « k * oommon'on © n ^ atirl'OfKwmiBon men wHbo can " pull . a dial from their wwher-Mid-OTgne ' Dhafbocaafle ^ s-ten now 'twill be eleven in an hour , iettveri ^ kiMJWB wo « hnvo -enough . 'When our state is perfect , nnd only then , ahall we be entitled to dischrd the servicoa of those who talk enthusiastically ' « f : Lib « a * y , ' -ViBfcoe , t'artd Democracy , and other things Bynonymoas and
; ,, onr us LTS for ^ e hem ii " ife receive Vlachs ^ s model because they call them ^ rves Athenians , and ^ are ready to embrace the first Greek who ^ yocifera ? es enthusiastically of freedom and nationality , with a medal of Nicholas ^ SB ^^^^^^ r ^^ iz and va " ° ^ f ^^| have learned the rudiments of politics , must necessarily tion ; and wnen they ^ je jear ^ ni ^ h be left to work out S ^ ST ^ aiSe ^ StnrSym ; thies and the ( and of Europe will £ first d ^ Sted towards nationalities , -which suffer infinitely more , but with adrnkabt ^ tlnce adjourn the discussion of their own grievances until the ^ ISd At ^ orvoS' we have before us , does not seem ever m . iMimonu auj » „ teionfrs to a younger and more sceptical ^ Tre £ asmThU he images himrelf & have AHIA . U . class . j . u « « i ,.. preparation , or a vague reminiscence . At any SS S £ f e ^ ientTd ^ Sl the Greeks ^ fTny corner they . nay have ? a - nlil hPirt He tries stiU to do justice to them , and in his general retained m huih « rt . *** tries j ^ ^ ^^^ ^^ ^ SS ^ i & 't ^ ra ^ Wr J rt IHwo satirical dfficers who had made observations thereon through SsSSssK ^^ cw ^ fa ? 5 B ^ mmm ^ i useless to 'X ^ i ^ et Sntleman of a con sonant-explained the whole m ° a \ te ? ta tbe mo t daborafe ^ Ssfaetory ma nner before Otho blessed f t . mauerrawie iiioBi wesence-in a book written as a manual for the %£ * S ^ ^ X *^>« ^ en that the unhappy country is still ^ M i ^ tK ^ Tin . n off-hand way to su ^ the ¦ - £ «*^ » ilwa ,- - readers inFrLce , but who has evidently studied his subject as if he had ^ Stn mJke abook bie enough to please a Dutchman , has common sense on Ts sSewhen he ffi that the inhabitants of Greece are still , for the on I'S SiaewnenuB There is no record of any extermination of the old S £ 3 S-SSt £ d Sfre ^ " the ingenioul . speculations of M . Milne Edwards ^ authority to say that a people remaining on atsow « soil , even if irrecSves a great foreign : mixture into its blood , has a tendency to ihrow off the sT ^ angeSement and return to its original type . However , it is cei-Sn tiiat there has been some degeneracy—rather mental and moral than Dl vsiS-and if "Those tall youths ! with slender figures , oval countenances , viSous eve and lively mind , who fill the streets of Athens , are certainly o 7 thT ^ me y famay iSLn ^ d models to Phidias , " as ; M . About aiamtams , ? m « rta . Stted . * he . female part of the population has . greatly deterio ? ITe d Yet even here exaggeration must be guarded agamst ; we have rdor * i « u . certainly have rivalled Ana-^ e e ^ G i | ek ^ lad ^^^^^ frrt 4 ^^_^ : ^ Btfl _ inarveIloi « 4 y-. bL ° Sl , ttSj ^ S tSJtifBfe , VMoh is . suffering , that marble refuses to receive , and ^ evidences of soul thafwe seek m vain beneath the fathomless stone eve-ball . On the whole , however , M . About ' s description is correct ; G ? eek wome ^ i are generallyugly and vulgar , and totally desmutc of grace ; so ' thatThe lover ' s invocation , " Stoop , O . ye mountains , that I . may 6 ce Atluna , : my charmer , who walks like a goose , " calls up a picture as well as a smile . " "The Greefcs have exactly as much passion as is necessary tor them to make-bse of what mind they possess ; and they have as much mind as any people in . the world , tliere being , so to speak , no intellectual labour oi wlncli theyareiricauaWe . " The reader is necessarily surprised to meet this passage in a book which speaks of Greece throughout in a spirit of depreciation that is almost unjust . Is it a sign of remorse , a slip of the pen , or a polite concession to Athenian friends ? In any case , being an almost coinplete description of a perfect people app lied to one of the most ff ™™\ « Jurope , itmustberejected «»\ o «« . The Greek people are , on the oontcary , oversupplied with passion ; they are inexorable in hatred , unbounded xn ambition , insatiable in vanity ; but , during a long , periocl of slavery , they have learned to bury their feelings , and to affect the indifference which'M . About believes to be their characteristic . As to their intelligence , St is certain they have groat aptitude in committing to memory the formulas of science , but Kke'all otiier Orientals , they are incapable of applying them practically -unleBS understforeifsn direction . A Greek may eeem perfect anaster ot all the principles of politics and diplomacy , but if , when culiud-upon to apply them to ihe present crisis , he affects to do more than say plaintively tlmt the rayas are an oppressed people , and that Nicholas is their only friend , depend upon it he dissimulatos and has a purpose to servo . Mark one curious circumstance , reader : noOreek ever raised his voice for suneriiig Italy , or Hungary , or Poland . The following little narrative ,-which wo Wkc fromM . About , might receive a . hundred corroborations : — jLt the epoch of any . arrival -in . Greece ( February , 1852 ) theao ^ ero at Athonn twonty ^ flv « or * mrty : Poles , who , - after having been engaged in the Italian war lwd fotmdidthftt «« MMro country a fltUl more meagre hospitality . . The climate did uot , Sih ^ i i ^^ a euflW irom € bver ; imd all worfd " . have died of hunger but lor the itenon ^^ offVifreek , M . N ^ gria , who empplkd \ thonv with the money nocosHary to eS « S « TidingHSl . . Th ^ carriedit on ata loss , and M . N ^ gna hi two yearn epentSSoO fomes ^ . however , they lived . The people of Ath ^ nB whocanuot undjrrtand thotgood ^ ui bo done w iOwut interested motives , accused , M . Ndgraa of cou-
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 3, 1855, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03021855/page/18/
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