If the only immediate effect was the substitution of an unlimited autocracy, the Osmanli peoples would be able thenceforward to ascribe their misfortunes to a single person, meditate attack, on a single position, and dream of realizing some day an ideal which had been definitely formulated.

"See next two slip-shod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness meditating song, With tresses staring from poetic dreams And never wash'd, but in Castalia's streams.