Shall Turkey Live or Die?

Shall Turkey Live or Die?, by Thomas Carlyle, says the European war now impending differs from the last in every important feature. The text says there are three classes of men whose minds the war especially occupies: the religious eschatologist, who expects a new phase of predicted fulfilment; the speculative politician, who expects a new distribution of territory and influence; and the practical man, who seeks a fuller explication and enforcement of existing interests and obligations.

The text says recent disclosures warrant the conclusion that the Pope has, although covertly, been the prime mover in the present troubles. The text says there never was a more unjust reproach than that raised by certain religionists against England, that she appears at the court of the Sultan as a Christian power taking the side of the oppressor against his Christian subjects. The text says that, be the cause of the Greek nation good or bad, none have been its warmer or more sincere supporters than the English.