Identifier: withworldspeopl04ridp (find matches)
Title: With the world's people; an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: Washington : Clark E. Ridpath
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ccept-ance of Islam is traceable to interestedmotives. The males in each family goto the mosque to worship, but the womennearly all attend the church. Both re-ligions are represented in the samehousehold and at the same table. Itfrequently happens that dishes areserved on the family table which areunclean to the Islamites but clean to theChristians. The wife will thus be seenhelping henself to food which the hus-band and sons are forbidden to touch. It is believed, however, that thesedifferences are factitious, and are main-tained onl V for political rea- subtlety of oldsons. Doubtless Mie .subtle- f/^lt.^triTba:ty of the Greek race has ^ns.contrived in such a situation much de-ception and insincerity. And it maywell be believed that the men arc moreinfidel than are the women, judged by thestandard of Islam. I^rom these circum-st.inces the Alb.-mians have never stc^odwell with lluir ni;islers. Thcv are dis-trusted of infidelity and disloyalty to thePorlc. The Turks h;ive no confidence
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ALBANIAN BRIGA.NUb. —Dr.iwii Ly h.. Kunjai, Irom a phoiograph. 214 GREAT RACES OE JJAXKIXD. in the sincerity or devotion of theirAlbanian subjects, and have become ac-customed to speak of them in terms ofcontempt. The character which theAlbanians maintain toward their mas-ters is the exact counterpart of the dis-position of the ancient Greeks in likecircumstances. The craft and deceptiveexploits of the old race are reproducedin the duplicity and treachery of theirmodern descendants. It must be re-membered, however, that these qualitiesof character do not involve the sameturpitude when employed against theTurks as when exhibited in the conductof Western peoples in their intercoursewith each other. And it must also beborne in mind tliat the Albanians aremuch more open and franjv than are themodern Greeks. There is, perhaps, no place in Europewhere so much lawlessness or individuallicense exists as in the mountainous dis-tricts of Albania. The License and . . . brigandage of community

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