Turkey and Its Future (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Turkey and Its Future The nineteenth and twentieth centuries will probably be noted in future history as an age of fundamental changes, both in the political and scientific worlds. It has been an age which has witnessed a marvellous increase in scientific discoveries and in their adaptation to the well-being of the human race. It has also been an age of revivals, of the awakening into life of races which had been long considered as somnolent, if not dead. The changes which have taken place in the East have startled the Western world as something almost supernatural in their suddenness. Who could have thought, fifty years ago, that Japan would spring in so short a time from semi-barbarism, as was supposed, to be one of the strongest Powers in the world? We have at last recognised the fact that the best results of Western civilisation, and a knowledge of applied science in all its forms, can be acquired and even improved upon by Oriental peoples. We must admit that what has been accomplished by Japan may, in time, be also effected by other Eastern nations, with results that no man can foresee, and that it was from no lack of mental capacity or intelligence that the East has, for so many ages, looked upon Western civilisation with haughty indifference, if not contempt. The learning and traditions of the Eastern sages of the past were considered sufficient wisdom for the happiness of the human race. 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.