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This Levantine Spirit Developed Gradually In Beirut After The Industrial Revolution, As The Burgeoning Lebanese Silk Trade And The Invention Of The Steamboat Combined To Bring Men And Women Of America And Western Europe In Large Numbers To The Levant. These Settlers From The West Were Catholic And Protestant Missionaries, Diplomats, And Merchants, Jewish Traders, Travelers And Physicians; And They Brought With Them Western Commerce, Manners, And Ideas And, Most Of All, A Certain Genteel, Open, Tolerant Attitude Toward Life And Toward Other Cultures. Their Mores And Manners Were Gradually Imitated By Elite Elements Of The Local Native Populations, Who Made A Highly Intelligent Blend Of These Western Ideas With Their Own Indigenous Arabic, Greek, And Turkish Cultures, Which Had Their Own Traditions Of Tolerance. "To Be A Levantine," Wrote Hourani, "is To Live In Two Worlds Or More At Once, Without Belonging To Either." In
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