Note 3 — PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Though this work is confessedly, as explained in the Introduction, a record of missionary efforts and not a history of persecutions,3 I have endeavoured to be strictly impartial and to conform to the ideal laid down by the Christian historian4 who chronicled the successes of the Ottomans and the fall of Constantinople: οὔτε πρὸς χάριν οὔτε πρὸς φθόνον, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ πρὸς μῖσος ἢ καὶ πρὸς εὔνοιαν συγγράφειν χρεών ἐστι τὸν συγγράφοντα, ἀλλ’ ἱστορίας μόνον καὶ τοῦ μή λήθης βυθῷ παραδοθῆναι, ἣν ὁ χρόνος οἶδε γεννᾶν, τὴν ἱστορίαν.