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of Turkey
before the Crimean
War, will remember that
though educated Turks
and the inhabitants
of
the
cities generally,
were better
informed, the mass
of
the
Mahomedan population
still firmly believed that
the
Sultan was the most
powerful Sovereign in the
World; that England and France
were his vassals, and were,
as such, sending their armies
to his aid against the infidel barbarians
of
Russia,
6.
6. It is generally believed
by those who know China
that whatever may
be the immediate result
of
the existing differences
with France, great changes
will before very long be
brought about through the
policy of Li Hung Chang,
and of other enlightened
Chinese Statesmen; that
the great
Empire will be gradually opened to European influences through
the
extension of railway and
the
telegraph