Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . fined as fanaticism tem-pered by corruption. 2 In fact, the bane of semi-civilized governments is the uncontrollablevenality of official life. It was as bad in India as elsewhere a fewgenerations back, and were it not for the vigorous oversight of Englishauthority and the fact that British officials are chiefly in the places ofresponsibility, there would be nothing to guarantee purity of administra-tion to-day. Our limits of space will not permit us to dwell longerupon this theme. 5. Massacre and Pillage. — Refe
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . fined as fanaticism tem-pered by corruption. 2 In fact, the bane of semi-civilized governments is the uncontrollablevenality of official life. It was as bad in India as elsewhere a fewgenerations back, and were it not for the vigorous oversight of Englishauthority and the fact that British officials are chiefly in the places ofresponsibility, there would be nothing to guarantee purity of administra-tion to-day. Our limits of space will not permit us to dwell longerupon this theme. 5. Massacre and Pillage. — References have already been made,in several specifications under a previous group in this lecture, to thebrutality and rapine which usually attend tribal warfare. In this con- Persian Life and Customs, contains many references to the misuse of officialposition in that country, especially among the minor officials (pp. 67, 179, 182, andintroduction, p. 15). 1 Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, vol. i., p. 103; vol. ii., p. 257, 2 Greene, The Armenian Crisis in Turkey, pp. 74, THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 275 nection we shall say a word concerning wanton bloodshed and spoli-ation as a national policy. It is not often that the purpose of exter-mination is deliberately adopted and put into exe-cution by an organized government. There are, to Extermination as abe sure, some historic precedents for this ghastly national policy,project, but they have usually taken the form ofplots or conspiracies rather than an accepted and predetermined planof action conceived and executed by the government That thispolicy is still a possibility of Oriental statecraft hardly admits of ques-tion, however, to any intelligent student of events in the TurkishEmpire at the present time. The Armenian nation, a Christian peo-ple who are so unhappy as to be among the subject races of the Otto-man Porte, numbering within Turkish territory possibly two millions,have become the victi
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