Though one may bitterly deplore, as I do most fervently, that the Turks ever set foot in Europe, it would be absurd to blame them for the destruction of the Byzantine Empire as it would be to arraign the laws of hydrostatics for damage by flood. But one can and may blame the wicked Fourth Crusade for making that destruction inevitable and bringing about the wreck of eastern Europe for centuries
P.L. Fermor, Mani (1958), 295
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