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THE PAGEANT OF PERSIA

THE PAGEANT
OF PERSIA

A Record of Travel by Motor in Persia
With an Account of Its Ancient
and Modern Ways

By HENRY FILMER

First published in 1937 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.

This edition first published in 2018 by Routledge

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THE PAGEANT OF PERSIA

Tomb of Darius the Great
To the left is a Sassanian rock sculpture representing the Roman Emperor Valerian making obeisance to Shapur

THE PAGEANT
OF PERSIA

A Record of Travel by Motor in Persia
With an Account of Its Ancient
and Modern Ways

By HENRY FILMER

Illustrated

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., Ltd.
Broadway House, 68-74, Carter Lane, E. C.
1937

COPYRIGHT, 1936

BY THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

To

MY WIFE

There is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs as the Persians.Herodotus.

The Persians are the most Civilizd People of the East.Chardin.

Persia certainly affords the most complete collective picture of the Eastern world.Vambery, HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES.

History is looked upon otherwise today than it was twenty years ago, and, indeed, it will be otherwise again before many years have passed. We have ceased to view it uniquely as a recital of battles and a chronology of reigns; we shall cease in the same way to hedge antiquity entirely within the contests and accounts of some small Greek States and of two or three Empires such as those of the Seleucids and the Romans. There will be recognized the desirability of forming a judgment of man on the basis of what he has been and on what he has done in all the regions of the earth, and it will be recognized that it is not less interesting to us to study this in Asia than in Athens, when it has come to be well understood that, after all, it is there that have been accomplished the most considerable and fruitful deeds, that it is there that have been produced the greatest ideas, there also that the philosophers of all the ages have gone to find their doctrines as merchants have found there their riches.

Everything is in debris, everything in ruins in this Asia. It is with good reason that men occupy themselves there so much with the past and so little with the future. The future is ended for these regions. They think only of living on what has been. But that is still a sufficient perspective since, I repeat it, everything has there taken its source. Nothing of what has been found in the world is to be found elsewhere. It has been thereafter improved, modified, amplified or reduced; this honor of a subordinate kind belongs to us, and it is well that everywhere man should have his allotted task. But it is inventiveness which makes up life; the rest is only secondary. Asia has possessed this inventiveness in thehighest degree and now rests from this great childbirth.Gobineau, TROIS ANS EN ASIE, 1859.

Persia has been the track for races moving from the farther parts of Asia through the southern gateway into Europe. Persia has succeeded in assimilating the invaders to herself, and passing the newly formed humanity on to the West. It has therefore played a very important part in the history of the peoples inhabiting the southern gateway. Throughout all the ages, in spite of Mongol, Tartar and Arab invasions and devastations, Nature through the agency of the fertile oases has restored to Iran the damage inflicted on her by man, and has given the Persian that material wealth which has enabled him to build up a culture of undying fame. Every foreign race that has subdued Persia politically has within a short period become culturally assimilated to her. Iran has always been the creator of abstract ideas, philosophies, mysteries and schools of thought, which she has sent forth to the East and to the West.

Living in the luxury of the oases, the Persian has lost all desire to fight invaders: he welcomes all, and conquers them by other means than force. The atmosphere of the isolated bazaar-town, with its cool Mosques and dignified Madrasas, calls forth the spirit of compromise in dealing with hungry tribes camped outside the gate. Some tribal chief among the nomads, or some caravan-thief, collects followers and proclaims himself governor of a province. He becomes governor and perhaps Shah, and founds a dynasty. The people of the oases submit, and go on with their fruit-growing and mysticism. The Persian is always being conquered by the sword, but in turn always subdues the conqueror by his intellect.M. Phillips Price, WAR AND REVOLUTION IN ASIATIC RUSSIA, 1918.

As for Persia, you will search the East in vain for a people or a Government more doomed to decay.

Such a people and such a Government cannot much longer escape the salutary rod of foreign control. It is merely a questionas to whether the rulers will be many or single. But in the meantime we must talk about the integrity of Persia. No Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs would be recognisable unless he had the word integrity or the phrase status quo on his lips. But while we talk of integrity we should not be idle. If we have a sphere of influence in Persia we should do well to develop it before some one else steps in to assist us, and personally I should prefer to regard the whole of Persia as our sphere of influence.Whigham, correspondent in Persia of the MORNING POST, THE PERSIAN PROBLEM, 1903.

Asia is a very tempting morsel but one which poisons those who feed upon it.Gobineau, TROIS ANS EN ASIE.

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Tomb of Darius the Great

I

IT IS the dawn of history and of the dispersion of the Indo-European peoples. They are breaking their tents in central Asia along the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs, primitive Aryans with their dogs and their herds of domesticated animals. In their trek they will proceed to the farthest confines of Europe. From them the peoples of England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia, Greece and others will take their origin. A part will penetrate into India and another portion into Persia. They will build empires and munitions factories, cathedrals and cabarets. Some less simple-minded, the Kurds, Lurs and Bakhtiaris will maintain in Persia their primitive character into the twentieth century.

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