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flourish in European atmosphere ; though the same 

 exuberance of vigour that first sent forth the mighty 

 shoot from Central Asia, has prevailed to pass through 

 the feeble defences of the West. It is as an over- 

 grown weakling that he exists in our quarter of the 

 world. His eyes are without fire, his manners with- 

 out the stamp of originality. He succumbs beneath 

 the presence of the Frank, the hated and despised, 

 and yet the feared and the envied. The better feel- 

 ings of his nature suffer from the constant presence of 

 those whose superiority he is forced to admire, but 

 whose personal character he naturally detests. Such 

 conflict of feeling cannot but be with detriment to 

 the spirit which, so fettered, refuses the generous 

 offices of brotherhood, and yields the debt of civility 

 only from policy or by constraint. How different is 

 this man in his proper country ! where the usages 

 and language and ideas are unmixedly those which 

 have been his father's before him; where the lead- 

 ing idea of giaours is that they are infidel dogs, 

 who eat pork and are unenlightened of Islam; and 

 where every one firmly believes that the whole set 

 of Franks are allowed to occupy and rule only by 

 the clemency of their high and mighty lord the 

 Padishah ! Here the Turk may condescend, and 

 here he can be truly generous and hospitable. The 

 Frank comes as a wanderer from his own remote 

 settlement (somewhere or other at the world's end), 

 to see the lords of the earth, the true believers. He 



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