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| Mashhad, circa 1870 |
“During several weeks, it seemed as though the old religion
had been completely defeated. The clergy, demoralized by the defection of their
chief and frightened by the public addresses which did not spare them, either
dared not show themselves or had taken flight. When Mullá Husayn-i-Bushrú’í
came to Mashhad he found, on the one hand, the population stirred up and
divided about him, on the other hand, the clergy forewarned and very anxious,
but exasperated and determined to oppose a vigorous resistance to the attacks
about to be launched against them.” (Comte de Gobineau’s “Les Religions et les
Philosophies dans l’Asie Centrale,” pp. 139–140.)
(Footnotes to chapter 6 provided by Shoghi Effendi)
