19th Century Turks

Describing 19^th century Turks, famous English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes: “They have no past; they are not an historical people, they exist only in the present, while J. L. Johnson (“Incidents of Travel in the Russian and Turkish Empires—1839) wrote: “The Turks are a sufficiently intelligent people, and cannot help feeling the superiority of strangers.”

Describing 19^th century Turks, famous English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes: “They have no past; they are not an historical people, they exist only in the present, while J. L. Johnson (“Incidents of Travel in the Russian and Turkish Empires—1839) wrote: “The Turks are a sufficiently intelligent people, and cannot help feeling the superiority of strangers.”