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Egypt and the Egyptian

But the dream of the people, if it is longer-lasting than that of individuals, is not less invigorating because of this; and for many centuries, the Egyptian population's dream cannot be but preparation of a more energetic and lively reawakening. We have been able to help the living in the efforts of an overbearing genius that looked to put this country in a state of profiting from general incivility. We of sacred respect, worship in him the Senusret of the century; but his death is not already/indeed that of his people; this already received a leap/outburst, and the career of a population does not stop that easily. Egypt has a great past to study, and an immense future to be prepared for. If Egypt must endure the moral laws of civilization of Europe (assimilating and subjugating them to its own nature), it has, however, a nobile and important mission to fulfill, that of civilizing the people within Africa and Asia, with who nature purposefully put in such close contact. And would this noble mission not be easily successful if an Egyptian conquest, easier on those barabic people than by someone else, were to spread in them the much more uniform Islamic principle, for now, than any other principle? This glorious and great mission is not an impulse of the moment that is driven by the sequence of events. From one part, its territory, separated so to say from the African continent, is so vitally involved in EGARSI (tying itself to) the disconnected Asia and in slowly extending itself, but without interrupting its passage and getting closer to the far-away Europe. From another part, the Egyptian population, descended from the burned Ethiopia to this wonderful valley, changed its nature and character to blend with the European nature and character. And so because of its geographic position, and because of its ethnographic condition, that population (who in the humanitarian synthesis forms the essential character of the modern era) to who only it is given permission to serve as the agency of communication of the exuberant European civilization for the still barbaric populations of inner Africa and of the Asiatic continent. It must integrate (every assimilation, one must be aware, introduces a transformation) the European civilization to make it easier and more acceptable to the other two continents that it borders.