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John Morley: “So far from being a simple case, it was indescribably entangled, and even the desperate questions that rise in our minds…”

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So far from being a simple case, it was indescribably entangled, and even the desperate questions that rise in our minds at the mention of the Balkan peninsula, of Armenia, of Constantinople, offer no such complex of difficulties as the Egyptian riddle in 1881-2.
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John Morley

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Morley compares the complexities of Egypt's issues to those of the Balkan region.

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