EVELYN BARING

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

History, indeed, records some very radical changes in the forms of government to which a state has been subjected without its interests being absolutely and permanently shipwrecked.

… twice as big as Germany and France together. The worst forms of misgovernment existed over this vast tract of country.... The rich soil on the banks of the [Nile] river, which had a few years since been highly cultivated, was abandoned. There was not a dog to howl for a lost master. Industry had vanished; oppression had driven the inhabitants from the soil.... The entire country was leased out to piratical slave-hunters and traders, under the name of traders, by the Khartoum Government. It was against the “Christian” morals of most English to capture and enslave residents of African villages. However, if the Blacks were already enslaved, most had little compunction to buying slaves, and reselling them in the Carribean or America. Almost all the Aftical slaves were originally captured and enslaved by Arab Slave Traders who could not enslave fellow Moslems but could do so for animists. The Englsh in control of the Sudan would look with askance at the “primitive” and “immoral” Arab slave traders, but would make money by the enslavement process by licencing Slave traders in the Sudan and of course charging a high fee.]

Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs from Arabia and Baghdad, Circassians, and finally, Ottoman Turks, have successively ruled over Egypt, but we have to go back to the doubtful and obscure precedents of Pharaonic times to find an epoch when, possibly, Egypt was ruled by Egyptians. Neither, for the present, do they appear to possess the qualities which would render it desirable, either in their own interests, or in those of the civilized world in general, to raise them at a bound to the category of autonomous rulers with full rights of internal sovereignty.

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

History, indeed, records some very radical changes in the forms of government to which a state has been subjected without its interests being absolutely and permanently shipwrecked.

Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs from Arabia and Baghdad, Circassians, and finally, Ottoman Turks, have successively ruled over Egypt, but we have to go back to the doubtful and obscure precedents of Pharaonic times to find an epoch when, possibly, Egypt was ruled by Egyptians. Neither, for the present, do they appear to possess the qualities which would render it desirable, either in their own interests, or in those of the civilized world in general, to raise them at a bound to the category of autonomous rulers with full rights of internal sovereignty.

… twice as big as Germany and France together. The worst forms of misgovernment existed over this vast tract of country.... The rich soil on the banks of the [Nile] river, which had a few years since been highly cultivated, was abandoned. There was not a dog to howl for a lost master. Industry had vanished; oppression had driven the inhabitants from the soil.... The entire country was leased out to piratical slave-hunters and traders, under the name of traders, by the Khartoum Government. It was against the “Christian” morals of most English to capture and enslave residents of African villages. However, if the Blacks were already enslaved, most had little compunction to buying slaves, and reselling them in the Carribean or America. Almost all the Aftical slaves were originally captured and enslaved by Arab Slave Traders who could not enslave fellow Moslems but could do so for animists. The Englsh in control of the Sudan would look with askance at the “primitive” and “immoral” Arab slave traders, but would make money by the enslavement process by licencing Slave traders in the Sudan and of course charging a high fee.]