22 - The reformer says:

"The white may mix with the black race. The mulattos cannot establish a civilization. The spirit, that is, the common feelings, of each race will fade away. This theory put forth by Gustave Leubon has been witnessed by the Ottomans. With the foreign blood which mixed with their race as the result of the method of devsirme (recruiting boys to be brought up as Janissaries) and through concubines, the Ottoman spirit deteriorated. Their genius increased but their morals were spoiled."

Gustave Leubon said, "Of the mixed races, the minority will die, their blood changing after a few generations." Because the majority was Turk in the Ottoman Empire, the Turks did not vanish but they increased in number and got stronger. Today, democracy has improved so far as to be said to be limitless in European countries, and races have been mixed altogether. Did this cause them to remain behind. There is not a pure race in the United States, where mixture of various races has not prevented advancement in civilization. If they were honored with being Muslims, their morals also would be perfect and the ancient Islamic civilization would enlighten the whole world. While races have mixed more in the course of history, there has not been any decrease in civilization. According to the reformer, people must have been more civilized in the old times when people mixed least.

It is very unsound, yet very funny, to regard the mixing of races as the reason for the immorality or corruption which caused calamity upon the Ottomans. The one and only real cause of the corruption and immorality was the irreligiousness of the educated and the ignorance of the uneducated. The role of irreligiousness in worsening morals was very much more than that of ignorance. It is for this reason that the educated irreligious are worse and baser. Therefore, survival of societies necessitates religious knowledge and a method of education based on religious knowledge. In order to prevent the fall of the Ottomans, those who wanted to rescue them from ignorance, which was yet their own disease, dragged them to the destruction of irreligiousness, which was more perilous, and thus they annihilated them altogether.