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Excerpt from Persia, Eastern Mission: A Narrative of the Founding and Fortunes of the Eastern Persia Mission, With a Sketch of the Versions of the Bible and Christian Literature in the Persian and Persian-Turkish Languages The attention of the public is drawn, at the present time, to Persia by reason of the Shah's recent visit to Europe. It appears to be assumed by many persons that because the people are interested in him they will be concerned to know more of his land and of whatever is likely in any way to affect the future of his kingdom. A glance at what is now commonly written concerning that land will reveal the effort which is made to please the public by presenting whatever is most curious and fabulous in the Shah and his country. When the popular taste for the disgusting cannot be satisfied with fact, there are many writers ready to supply the lack from fancy and to recall the fictions of China and the Middle Ages. When the public taste calls for more refined delusions, the demand is supplied by the suppression of some facts and the exaggeration of others. The people have been taught to look upon the Shah as a coarse beast, or as a magician whose province it is to call up the fabulous era with which the name of Persia has been for so long a time associated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.