The peasants know, of course, about those Semitic victories; but they know also that if the Semite has had his day of triumph and imposed, as was right and proper, his God and his Prophet on Roumeven on all mankind as many believed, and some may be found in remoter regions who still believehe has returned to his own place south of Taurus; and still Roum is Roum, natural indefeasible Lord of the World.