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the civilising work which Great Britain has
undertaken in Egypt would be gradually under-
mined, that corruption of various sorts would
again become rampant, and that there was even
some risk that, as in the days of Ismail Pasha,
Egypt would again degenerate into being the
happy hunting-ground of the political and finan-
cial adventurer. There is a good deal of truth
in Pindar's lines:

̔Ρᾴδιον μὲν γὰρ πόλιν σει + ̑σαι καὶ ἀϕαυροτέροις˙
ἀλλ̓ Ἐπὶ χώρας αᾱ + ̑τις ἕσσαι δυσπαλὲς δὴ γίγνεται, Ἐξαπίνας
εἰ μὴ θεὸς ἁγεμόνεσσι κυßερνατὴρ γένηται. 1

THE END

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1 Pyth. iv. 272-74: "It is a small thing even for a slight
man to shake a city, but to set it firm again in its place this is
a hard struggle indeed, unless with sudden aid God guide the
ruler's hand."

Tennyson sent this quotation to Mr. Gladstone when the latter
introduced his Home Rule Bill into Parliament. But it is much
more applicable to Abbas II. than to Mr. Gladstone, for the former
is and the latter, whatever else he may have been, was very dis-
tinctly not ἀϕαυρός--an expression which E. Myers translates "a
slight man."

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Publication Information: Book Title: Abbas II. Contributors: Evelyn Baring Cromer - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1915. Page Number: 84.
    
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