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    Shqiptaret, të Krishterët e parë në Ballkan

    Albanians were the first christians in the Balkans.

    The moral flame common to all Albanian clerics of all creeds was similar to the ancient apostolic zeal combined with a fiery patriotic feeling. Christianity in Albania is an apostolic one, i.e., it has been instilled to "Arbërs" (old Albanians) directly from the mouth of Jesus Christ's Apostles themselves and became widespread in Illyria as early as the 1st century AD as an illicit religion. About 57 AD, Apostle Paul writes, "So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ... where Christ was not known". (Rom. 15:19-20). Besides Paul, many other saints have preached across Illyrian lands, and they would pass into the Balkan space along a highway, Via Egnatia, which started from Durrës (Dyrrachium) to proceed eastward. Records say that there were 60 Christian families in Dyrrachium in 58 AD. The earliest Christian bishops launched their activities just in Illyria, beginning with bishop Qesar of Durrës in 70 AD and later with St. Asti in 98 AD. Emperor Trajan and the local ruler Agrikoli sentenced St. Asti to death in 116 as by this time Rome prohibited and condemned Christian practices.
    The first Christian centres established through the preaching activities of both Apostles and their Illyrian supporters during the 1st century AD to the 4th century AD (when Christianity became a legal religion) can be ascertained across such cities as Dyrrachium, Butrint, Onhezm (Saranda), Jeriko, Vlora, Apollonia, Amantia, Bylis (Ballsh), Antipatrea (Berati), Skampis (Elbasan), Scodra (Shkodër), Lyhnid (Ohrid), etc. Among mosaics and old church structures such as those in St. Nicholas’s Church in Kurjan of Fier, Ballshi's basilica, etc., early Christian symbols are preserved, such as heart-shaped vegetation leaves (see Butrinti's mosaics and elsewhere), crucifix shapes in Saranda's mosaics, fish shapes both in Ballshi's wood carvings and other mosaics such as that of Lin of Pogradec and elsewhere.

    The illegal sign of the name of Jesu Christ (first century AD) is found only in some Illyrian and Roman antique Basilicas. This sign is formed from the crossing of seven lines and one arch. Such evidence testifies to Illyria's having become, from the very start, one of the main regions of propagating Christian religion for several reasons -- its very ancientness and the great expansion of its people, its big urban development with cities such as Dyrrachium, Apollonia, Shkodër, etc., and its very favourable geopolitic position as a natural corridor between East and West for transmitting Christianity's moral values and transporting an endless host of armies and battles... In the 4th century AD, Emperor Constantine proclaimed Christianity an official religion, hence it was codified in the Bible, and its institutions -- churches and monasteries -- were created; its bishops, archbishops, abbots and their dioceses with their headquarters in Rome came into being.

    The full conversion to Christianity of territories where the Albanians of today live was carried out during the 5th and 6th centuries. St. Jerome (Hieronymus) of Illyria made the first translation of the Bible in Latin (La Vulgata) giving the world for the first time the Holy Bible in the mid-4th century. The first Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 was the first to articulate the basic principle of Christianity, "I believe in one God, the Almighty Father, the creator of heaven and earth and of all what is seen and unseen." St. Niketa of Dardania (Remesianes) authored the principal prayer of Christianity (its chief hymn) TE DEUM LAUDAMUS (We Praise Thee, God) which continues to be the principal prayer to date after more than 15 centuries. Being in war against barbarian tribes, Constantine the Great gave orders to build several magnificent basilicas.

    The types of such basilicas consist of a rectangular floor, whose laying with mosaics was something preferable. In their outer sides there were colonnades whereby the church's portico was concocted. Such kinds of basilicas have been found in Albania as well, in Butrint, Bylis, Antigone, Tepe in Elbasan and probably elsewhere. During the period of late antiquity, church structures were organized on province basis (Dardania, Prreviewit, New Epirus and Old Epirus); each having a metropolis at their head to which bishoprics were subordinate. Until the 8th century, Illyrian church was directly subordinate to Rome. This is why Albanian church terminology, i.e., words such as mass, Eucharist, priest, saint, baptism, bishop, cross, malediction, etc. are of Latin origin. This also shows that in the 4th to 6th centuries, when such phenomena as church language, etc., were sanctioned, the Arbërs were present in these places. After the split of the Empire, they were included in the East Illyricum zone, whose church subordination would shift between Rome and Constantinople. Beginning from the first half of the 8th century (the year 731 following Leo the Isaurian's decision on the re-division of Eastern dioceses from the Western ones) the Illyrian space (already known as the land of Arbërs) was divided into zones subordinate to Constantinople's Patriarchate, and zones subordinate to Rome. It is commonly held that River Mati might have been the dividing line between Byzantium and Rome.
    "Babai i shtetit është Ismail "Qemali", e zbuloi Edvin shkencëtari!"

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    Jerome Sept 30 c 341-420. Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius was born at Stridon in Dalmatia. He studied in Rome, travelled in Italy and Gaul, lived as a hermit in Palestine and then returned to Rome where he was ordained. He finally went back to Palestine and settled in Bethlehem. He spent the rest of his life translating and commenting on the Bible. The Orthodox Church accords him the title of Blessed.
    "Babai i shtetit është Ismail "Qemali", e zbuloi Edvin shkencëtari!"

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    St. Jerome

    Born at Stridon, a town on the confines of Dalmatia and Pannonia, about the year 340-2; died at Bethlehem, 30 September, 420.

    He went to Rome, probably about 360, where he was baptized, and became interested in ecclesiastical matters. From Rome he went to Trier, famous for its schools, and there began his theological studies. Later he went to Aquileia, and towards 373 he set out on a journey to the East. He settled first in Antioch, where he heard Apollinaris of Laodicea, one of the first exegetes of that time and not yet separated from the Church. From 374-9 Jerome led an ascetical life in the desert of Chalcis, south-west of Antioch. Ordained priest at Antioch, he went to Constantinople (380-81), where a friendship sprang up between him and St. Gregory of Nazianzus. From 382 to August 385 he made another sojourn in Rome, not far from Pope Damasus. When the latter died (11 December, 384) his position became a very difficult one. His harsh criticisms had made him bitter enemies, who tried to ruin him. After a few months he was compelled to leave Rome. By way of Antioch and Alexandria he reached Bethlehem, in 386. He settled there in a monastery near a convent founded by two Roman ladies, Paula and Eustochium, who followed him to Palestine. Henceforth he led a life of asceticism and study; but even then he was troubled by controversies which will be mentioned later, one with Rufinus and the other with the Pelagians.

    CHRONOLOGY

    The literary activity of St. Jerome, although very prolific, may be summed up under a few principal heads: works on the Bible; theological controversies; historical works; various letters; translations. But perhaps the chronology of his more important writings will enable us to follow more easily the development of his studies.

    A first period extends to his sojourn in Rome (382), a period of preparation. From this period we have the translation of the homilies of Origen on Jeremias, Ezechiel, and Isaias (379-81), and about the same time the translation of the Chronicle of Eusebius; then the "Vita S. Pauli, prima eremitae" (374-379).

    A second period extends from his sojourn in Rome to the beginning of the translation of the Old Testament from the Hebrew (382-390). During this period the exegetical vocation of St. Jerome asserted itself under the influence of Pope Damasus, and took definite shape when the opposition of the ecclesiastics of Rome compelled the caustic Dalmatian to renounce ecclesiastical advancement and retire to Bethlehem. In 384 we have the correction of the Latin version of the Four Gospels; in 385, the Epistles of St. Paul; in 384, a first revision of the Latin Psalms according to the accepted text of the Septuagint (Roman Psalter); in 384, the revision of the Latin version of the Book of Job, after the accepted version of the Septuagint; between 386 and 391 a second revision of the Latin Psalter, this time according to the text of the "Hexapla" of Origen (Gallican Psalter, embodied in the Vulgate). It is doubtful whether he revised the entire version of the Old Testament according to the Greek of the Septuagint. In 382-383 "Altercatio Luciferiani et Orthodoxi" and "De perpetua Virginitate B. Mariae; adversus Helvidium". In 387-388, commentaries on the Epistles to Philemon, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to Titus; and in 389-390, on Ecclesiastes.

    Between 390 and 405, St. Jerome gave all his attention to the translation of the Old Testament according to the Hebrew, but this work alternated with many others. Between 390-394 he translated the Books of Samuel and of Kings, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Canticle of Canticles, Esdras, and Paralipomena. In 390 he translated the treatise "De Spiritu Sancto" of Didymus of Alexandria; in 389-90, he drew up his "Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim" and "De interpretatione nominum hebraicorum." In 391-92 he wrote the "Vita S. Hilarionis", the "Vita Malchi, monachi captivi", and commentaries on Nahum, Micheas, Sophonias, Aggeus, Habacuc. In 392-93, "De viris illustribus", and "Adversus Jovinianum"; in 395, commentaries on Jonas and Abdias; in 398, revision of the remainder of the Latin version of the New Testament, and about that time commentaries on chapters xiii-xxiii of Isaias; in 398, an unfinished work "Contra Joannem Hierosolymitanum"; in 401, "Apologeticum adversus Rufinum"; between 403-406, "Contra Vigilantium"; finally from 398 to 405, completion of the version of the Old Testament according to the Hebrew.

    In the last period of his life, from 405 to 420, St. Jerome took up the series of his commentaries interrupted for seven years. In 406, he commented on Osee, Joel, Amos, Zacharias, Malachias; in 408, on Daniel; from 408 to 410, on the remainder of Isaias; from 410 to 415, on Ezechiel; from 415-420, on Jeremias. From 401 to 410 date what is left of his sermons; treatises on St. Mark, homilies on the Psalms, on various subjects, and on the Gospels; in 415, "Dialogi contra Pelagianos".

    CHARACTERISTICS OF ST. JEROME'S WORK

    St. Jerome owes his place in the history of exegetical studies chiefly to his revisions and translations of the Bible. Until about 391-2, he considered the Septuagint translation as inspired. But the progress of his Hebraistic studies and his intercourse with the rabbis made him give up that idea, and he recognized as inspired the original text only. It was about this period that he undertook the translation of the Old Testament from the Hebrew. But he went too far in his reaction against the ideas of his time, and is open to reproach for not having sufficiently appreciated the Septuagint. This latter version was made from a much older, and at times much purer, Hebrew text than the one in use at the end of the fourth century. Hence the necessity of taking the Septuagint into consideration in any attempt to restore the text of the Old Testament. With this exception we must admit the excellence of the translation made by St. Jerome. His commentaries represent a vast amount of work but of very unequal value. Very often he worked exceedingly rapidly; besides, he considered a commentary a work of compilation, and his chief care was to accumulate the interpretations of his predecessors, rather than to pass judgment on them. The "Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim" is one of his best works. It is a philological inquiry concerning the original text. It is to be regretted that he was unable to continue, as had been his intention, a style of work entirely new at the time. Although he often asserted his desire to avoid excessive allegory, his efforts in that respect were far from successful, and in later years he was ashamed of some of his earlier allegorical explanations. He himself says that he had recourse to the allegorical meaning only when unable to discover the literal meaning. His treatise, "De Interpretatione nominum hebraicorum", is but a collection of mystical and symbolical meanings. Excepting the "Commenta rius in ep. ad Galatas", which is one of his best, his explanations of the New Testament have no great value. Among his commentaries on the Old Testament must be mentioned those on Amos, Isaias, and Jeremias. There are some that are frankly bad, for instance those on Zacharias, Osee, and Joel. To sum up, the Biblical knowledge of St. Jerome makes him rank first among ancient exegetes. In the first place, he was very careful as to the sources of his information. He required of the exegete a very extensive knowledge of sacred and profane history, and also of the linguistics and geography of Palestine. He never either categorically acknowledged or rejected the deuterocanonical books as part of the Canon of Scripture, and he repeatedly made use of them. On the inspiration, the existence of a spiritual meaning, and the freedom of the Bible from error, he holds the traditional doctrine. Possibly he has insisted more than others on the share which belongs to the sacred writer in his collaboration in the inspired work. His criticism is not without originality. The controversy with the Jews and with the Pagans had long since called the attention of the Christians to certain difficulties in the Bible. St. Jerome answers in various ways. Not to mention his answers to this or that difficulty, he appeals above all to the principle, that the original text of the Scriptures is the only one inspired and free from error. Therefore one must determine if the text, in which the difficulties arise, has not been altered by the copyist. Moreover, when the writers of the New Testament quoted the Old Testament, they did so not according to the letter but according to the spirit. There are many subtleties and even contradictions in the explanations Jerome offers, but we must bear in mind his evident sincerity. He does not try to cloak over his ignorance; he admits that there are many difficulties in the Bible; at times he seems quite embarrassed. Finally, he proclaims a principle, which, if recognized as legitimate, might serve to adjust the insufficiencies of his criticism. He asserts that in the Bible there is no material error due to the ignorance or the heedlessness of the sacred writer, but he adds: "It is usual for the sacred historian to conform himself to the generally accepted opinion of the masses in his time" (P.L., XXVI, 98; XXIV, 855). Among the historical works of St. Jerome must be noted the translation and the continuation of the "Chronicon Eusebii Caesariensis", as the continuation written by him, which extends from 325 to 378, served as a model for the annals of the chroniclers of the Middle Ages; hence the defects in such works: dryness, superabundance of data of every description, lack of proportion and of historical sense. The "Vita S. Pauli Eremitae" is not a very reliable document. The "Vita Malchi, monachi" is a eulogy of chastity woven through a number of legendary episodes. As to the "Vita S. Hilarionis", it has suffered from contact with the preceding ones. It has been asserted that the journeys of St. Hilarion are a plagiarism of some old tales of travel. But these objections are altogether misplaced, as it is really a reliable work. The treatise "De Viris illustribus" is a very excellent literary history. It was written as an apologetic work to prove that the Church had produced learned men. For the first three centuries Jerome depends to a great extent on Eusebius, whose statements he borrows, often distorting them, owing to the rapidity with which he worked. His accounts of the authors of the fourth century however are of great value. The oratorical consist of about one hundred homilies or short treatises, and in these the Solitary of Bethlehem appears in a new light. He is a monk addressing monks, not without making very obvious allusions to contemporary events. The orator is lengthy and apologizes for it. He displays a wonderful knowledge of the versions and contents of the Bible. His allegory is excessive at times, and his teaching on grace is Semipelagian. A censorious spirit against authority, sympathy for the poor which reaches the point of hostility against the rich, lack of good taste, inferiority of style, and misquotation, such are the most glaring defects of these sermons. Evidently they are notes taken down by his hearers, and it is a question whether they were reviewed by the preacher. The correspondence of St. Jerome is one of the best known parts of his literary output. It comprises about one hundred and twenty letters from him, and several from his correspondents. Many of these letters were written with a view to publication, and some of them the author even edited himself; hence they show evidence of great care and skill in their composition, and in them St. Jerome reveals himself a master of style. These letters, which had already met with great success with his contemporaries, have been, with the "Confessions" of St. Augustine, one of the works most appreciated by the humanists of the Renaissance. Aside from their literary interest they have great historical value. Relating to a period covering half a century they touch upon most varied subjects; hence their division into letters dealing with theology, polemics, criticism, conduct, and biography. In spite of their turgid diction they are full of the man's personality. It is in this correspondence that the temperament of St. Jerome is most clearly seen: his waywardness, his love of extremes, his exceeding sensitiveness; how he was in turn exquisitely dainty and bitterly satirical, unsparingly outspoken concerning others and equally frank about himself. The theological writings of St. Jerome are mainly controversial works, one might almost say composed for the occasion. He missed being a theologian, by not applying himself in a consecutive and personal manner to doctrinal questions. In his controversies he was simply the interpreter of the accepted ecclesiastical doctrine. Compared with St. Augustine his inferiority in breadth and originality of view is most evident. His "Dialogue" against the Luciferians deals with a schismatic sect whose founder was Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari in Sardinia. The Luciferians refused to approve of the measure of clemency by which the Church, since the Council of Alexandria, in 362, had allowed bishops, who had adhered to Arianism, to continue to discharge their duties on condition of professing the Nicene Creed. This rigorist sect had adherents almost everywhere, and even in Rome it was very troublesome. Against it Jerome wrote his "Dialogue", scathing in sarcasm, but not always accurate in doctrine, particularly as to the Sacrament of Confirmation. The book "Adversus Helvidium" belongs to about the same period. Helvidius held the two following tenets:

    Mary bore children to Joseph after the virginal birth of Jesus Christ;
    from a religious viewpoint, the married state is not inferior to celibacy.
    Earnest entreaty decided Jerome to answer. In doing so he discusses the various texts of the Gospel which, it was claimed, contained the objections to the perpetual virginity of Mary. If he did not find positive answers on all points, his work, nevertheless, holds a very creditable place in the history of Catholic exegesis upon these questions. The relative dignity of virginity and marriage, discussed in the book against Helvidius, was taken up again in the book "Adversus Jovinianum" written about ten years later. Jerome recognizes the legitimacy of marriage, but he uses concerning it certain disparaging expressions which were criticized by contemporaries and for which he has given no satisfactory explanation. Jovinian was more dangerous than Helvidius. Although he did not exactly teach salvation by faith alone, and the uselessness of good works, he made far too easy the road to salvation and slighted a life of asceticism. Every one of these points St. Jerome took up. The "Apologetici adversus Rufinum" dealt with the Origenistic controversies. St. Jerome was involved in one of the most violent episodes of that struggle, which agitated the Church from Origen's lifetime until the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553). The question at issue was to determine if certain doctrines professed by Origen and others taught by certain pagan followers of Origen could be accepted. In the present case the doctrinal difficulties were embittered by personalities between St. Jerome and his former friend, Rufinus. To understand St. Jerome's position we must remember that the works of Origen were by far the most complete exegetical collection then in existence, and the one most accessible to students. Hence a very natural tendency to make use of them, and it is evident that St. Jerome did so, as well as many others. But we must carefully distinguish between writers who made use of Origen and those who adhered to his doctrines. This distinction is particularly necessary with St. Jerome, whose method of work was very rapid, and consisted in transcribing the interpretations of former exegetes without passing criticism on them. Nevertheless, it is certain that St. Jerome greatly praised and made use of Origen, that he even transcribed some erroneous passages without due reservation. But it is also evident that he never adhered thinkingly and systematically to the Origenistic doctrines. Under these circumstances it came about that when Rufinus, who was a genuine Origenist, called on him to justify his use of Origen, the explanations he gave were not free from embarrassment. At this distance of time it would require a very subtle and detailed study of the question to decide the real basis of the quarrel. However that may be, Jerome may be accused of imprudence of language and blamed for a too hasty method of work. With a temperament such as his, and confident of his undoubted orthodoxy in the matter of Origenism, he must naturally have been tempted to justify anything. This brought about a most bitter controversy with his wily adversary, Rufinus. But on the whole Jerome's position is by far the stronger of the two, even in the eyes of his contemporaries. It is generally conceded that in this controversy Rufinus was to blame. It was he who brought about the conflict in which he proved himself to be narrow-minded, perplexed, ambitious, even timorous. St. Jerome, whose attitude is not always above reproach, is far superior to him. Vigilantius, the Gascon priest against whom Jerome wrote a treatise, quarrelled with ecclesiastical usages rather than matters of doctrine. What he principally rejected was the monastic life and the veneration of saints and of relics. In short, Helvidius, Jovinian, and Vigilantius were the mouthpieces of a reaction against asceticism which had developed so largely in the fourth century. Perhaps the influence of that same reaction is to be seen in the doctrine of the monk Pelagius, who gave his name to the principal heresy on grace: Pelagianism. On this subject Jerome wrote his "Dialogi contra Pelagianos". Accurate as to the doctrine of original sin, the author is much less so when he determines the part of God and of man in the act of justification. In the main his ideas are Semipelagian: man merits first grace: a formula which endangers the absolute freedom of the gift of grace. The book "De situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum" is a translation of the "Onomasticon" of Eusebius, to which the translator has joined additions and corrections. The translations of the "Homilies" of Origen vary in character according to the time in which they were written. As time went on, Jerome became more expert in the art of translating, and he outgrew the tendency to palliate, as he came across them, certain errors of Origen. We must make special mention of the translation of the homilies "In Canticum Canticorum", the Greek original of which has been lost.
    St. Jerome's complete works can be found in P.L., XXII-XXX.

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    gazeta shekulli 07/04/2004

    Historia Shqiptare


    Zhan-Klod Faverial

    Shumë kohë më parë se Perëndia të na hidhte në kufijtë e Shqipërisë, ne i kemi parë shqiptarët, dhe kemi thënë: Ja, njerëz me të vërtetë të mirë. Mendimi i mirë që ishte ngjizur ndër ne, u forcua më tej nga marrëdhëniet që patëm me Bib Dodën, princ i Mirditës.
    Dhe, që atëherë lindi ideja për të studiuar nën dritën e historisë, një popull që nxirrte para nesh njerëz kaq të mirë, shfaqte kaq madhështi, dhe na ngjallte kaq nderim. Mjerisht, askush, të paktën aq sa ne njihnim, nuk e ka shkruar historinë e saj. Ndoshta, për këtë arsye, na u desh të shënonim vetë me durim faktet në lidhje me Shqipërinë, të cilat i gjejmë të shpërndara ndër historianë dhe dokumente të huaj.
    Çfarë doli si rrjedhim nga kjo punë e gjatë dhe e stërmundimtë? Seria e papërfunduar, pa dyshim, por tekembramja, një sërë faktesh, një pjesë civile dhe të tjerat fetare, që ne sot mund t’ia parashtrojmë lexuesit.
    Ndoshta, ende këto fakte nuk do të kishin marrë një farë renditje kronologjike, pa një udhëtim që ne bëmë në Gorça (Guruxhe për turqit), në vitin 1884, dhe kur u kthyem prej andej, ndjemë nevojën të përfitonim nga materiale të tjera, përveç që i kishim mbledhur me mundim.
    Ishte një e vërtetë se, qysh nga pushtimi romak, Shqipëria nuk ka patur përkatësi politike. Që atëherë, për të hartuar historinë e saj, nuk mund të mbështeteshe në zhvillimet politike të jetës së saj kombëtare.
    Por në mungesë të ngjarjeve politike, dukej se mund të gjeje mbështetje në faqet e jetës së saj fetare. Po ashtu, vendi ka kaluar në krishtërim qysh në kohët e hershme, dhe primati i Ilirisë, pati kërkuar strehim ndër malet shqiptare, pas shkatërrimit të Justinianës nga ana e Avarëve.
    Për fat të keq ne nuk kishim llogaritur Greko-Bizantinët dhe vandalizmin e tyre. Por për shkak të vandalizmit të tyre u shkatërruan monumentet që ne patëm filluar, jo vetëm në jetën fetare të popullit shqiptar, por, pothuaj të të gjithë gadishullit Ilirian: Ohri-Justiniana ka qenë metropoli i tij nga viti 535 deri në 1767.
    Për historianin, shkatërrimi i arkivave të një kryeqendre kaq të rëndësishme e kaq të madhe, si Metropoli Ohër-Justiniana, është një humbje për të cilën nuk do të të vinte shumë keq, nëse veç interesit të madh në lidhje me të, nuk do të kishin shërbyer shumë fakte fetare si pika orientimi për ngjarjet civile…
    Nuk është e pavlerë të theksojmë, gjithashtu, se peng i grindjeve fetare, të dhunshme e shekullore, midis Romës e Bizantit, ka qenë Iliria. Ka qenë kjo në Bizant, si rrallë diku tjetër ku ndodhin grindjet fetare, por, shkaku për të cilin është debatuar gjithherët ishte për zotërimin e Ilirisë dhe të Ohrit, metropolit të saj.
    Pra, çështja kryesore e Bizantit ishte që, të mbeste zotëruese e Ohrit, dhe të mos lejonte ilirët të krijonin një shtet më vete, siç u formuan në vende të tjera, si dhe të kthente në bizantizëm atë që Roma e kishte romanizuar, e më tej, të zëvendësonte me të folmen greke, në fillim atë latinishte, e më pas edhe të folmet vendase, të cilat u bënë krahinore, rurale, në krahasim me gjuhën zyrtare të pranuar nga të gjithë.
    Dhe tashmë, cila do të jetë e ardhmja e këtyre racave të pafat dhe e këtyre vendeve të mallkuara? Ne nuk e dimë. Veç diçka duket e sigurtë. Çasti për të krijuar një shtet të madh ka humbur njëherë e përgjithmonë. Duhet shtuar këtu se, sa më tepër grekët do t’i imponojnë vetes sakrifica, herë për të fituar njërën e herë për të fituar tjetrën pjesë, aq më shumë do të bëhen të urryer.
    Përsa i përket interesit të tanishëm që i bashkangjitet njohjes, jo vetëm të Shqipërisë, por edhe më tej, të gjithë Gadishullit Ilir, ne na duket përherë e më tepër se Europa e industrializuar dhe e qytetëruar, bën këtu po atë çka vetë Europa barbare dhe endacake ka bërë dikur….




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