As (I. Kapodistrias) mentions in a letter to Metropolitan Ignatius (April 12/24, 1823): "Since last year, the idea of a work on the current state of Greece has been the subject of my most pleasant occupations and my wishes." Regarding the "idea of the work," he clarifies that it aims "…to demonstrate, on the one hand, to the European Governments, and on the other hand, to our compatriots, the truth … in all its relations." Kapodistrias hastens to immediately announce the purpose, the "idea of his work": "One will hopefully be easily convinced:… That the Greeks never ceased to primarily constitute a nation." He will explicitly point out, referring to the implications of the claim regarding the rupture of the historical continuity of Hellenism, saying that the followers of the Enlightenment, by intervening in its history, caused great harm to the interests of the nation: "The harm that foreign politics has done to us voluntarily, and the good it has done to us involuntarily, is nothing but the pure and simple result of the deep ignorance in which it finds itself regarding the true state of affairs in Greece and Turkey." He will add, in order not to leave room for doubt about what he means: "Enlightened politics will no longer be able to harm us as much as it would have harmed us, supporting its combinations on false data in the future as well as in the past." In this respect, the difference in perspective between Kapodistrias and Korais becomes interesting: in a digression, he points out how disastrous it would be for the nation to be liberated not by its own forces but by the hand of foreigners or to be placed under their ideological and political protection. Invoking Russia, he will agree that in this case, corresponding to Korais' "Graeco-French" program, this path would result in the creation of a "Russo-Greek" instead of a Greek nation, that is, in its ideological mortgaging at the cost of its dependence on its benefactor.