Oh NO ! I have several of his books, those old editions. I never knew what to think about him exactly.
This explains WHY !
What he wrote was PREPOSTEROUS !
I totally agree that the Greeks should NOT have revolted against the Ottomans. They would have been WAY BETTER OFF just working with the Ottomans, who were not evil as depicted so often.
Greece would be stronger today.
Remember how Lord Byron was wildly romanticized by the British for traveling to Greece to help this revolt ?
Things like that contributed to that false image of a 'sacred revolution', at least from a Western viewpoint.
Byron actually died there, in Missolonghi, Greece, of fever. Certainly a BAD sign for the "holy war". I just looked up the date : April 19, 1824.
What a waste !