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CHAPTER XXXIV
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE ARMENIANS.
1864-1866.
A reactionary movement took place among the Mohammedans of the capital in 1864.
The government had encouraged the introduction of European science.
Men high in civil positions had delivered courses of lectures on history and other topics, in a surprisingly liberal spirit, and to audiences embracing hundreds of Turks.
A "Literary and Scientific Gazette," published monthly under the auspices of a native "Oriental Society," discussed questions of political and social economy from an occidental stand-point; and the press was active in issuing pamphlets and books by native writers, indicating and promoting a new intellectual life.
All this the devotees of the "Old School" regarded with suspicion.
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