The official statement that the administration is to be carried on by Lord Cromer's successor in the same spirit and on the same lines as those Lord Cromer has followed is the best guarantee that the Egyptians or European nations interested in the country could have that the magnificent work he has accomplished is not to be lost.
Years ago, in India, an engineer was busy putting the last finishing touches to a great undertaking that had cost him years of thought and labour. The success of his work seemed almost secured when the rising floods of the rainy season, seizing on a weak and unprotected point, threatened to wreck the whole. I trust I may never again behold such awful agony of mind as that which almost crushed the unhappy man as he gazed upon the roaring rush of the ruthless flood, slowly, surely destroying the very foundations of his work.
Assuredly it would be a calamity of untold magnitude were the vastly greater work of Lord Cromer to be imperilled for want of any reasonable precaution!
Index
Abbass Pacha, [290]
Agitation in Egypt, [369]
Aim of all men the same, [186]
Alexandria, English fleet at, in 1798, [11]
Nelson arrives at, [37]
Ali Bey, Sultan of Egypt, [46]
Al Moayyad, Arabic newspaper, [321], [337]
teaching the people to think, [384]
Ambition, Egyptians regard it as folly, [183]
"Amnesty" as interpreted by the French, [240]
Anniversary of French Republic at Cairo, [155]
Anti-Egyptian and Anti-Islamic party in Egypt, [379]
Anti-English feeling of European colonists, [306]
Arab and Egyptian character contrasted, [41]
Arab Caliphate, Desire for, [33]
Arabic language, Egyptians and the, [132], [384]
Press in Egypt, [326]
Arab invasion, Effect of, [28]
Arabi's revolt, [389]
"Are they not our people?", [232], [237]
Armenians allied to European races, [18]
and the Boer War, [327]
Author, A famous Egyptian, [180]
Author's aim, Preface, [396]
criticisms of the French, [271], [272]
Azhar University defiled by the French, The, [170]
Bacchanalian festival at Cairo, A, [219]
Balloon at Cairo, [174]
Battle of Embabeh, or the Pyramids, [90]
Matarieh, [225]
Shebriss, [86]
the Nile, [138]
Bedouins, Character of the, [80]
plunder Egyptian fugitives, [102]
Bekir Pacha, Governor of Cairo, [48], [62]
"Benevolences" in Egypt, [113]
Berbereens, Character of, [373]
Bey, Value of the title, [49]
Bigotry of the Egyptians, Alleged, [249]
Birket el Feel, quarter of Cairo, [63], [166]
Birthday of the Prophet at Cairo, [140]
Bishop Horsley on the rights of the people, [115]
Boer War, opinions in Egypt, [327]
Bonaparte and the Egyptians, [71], [130], [144]
at Alexandria, [42], [64]
character of, [217]
claims to be inspired, [197]
fails to learn the lesson of the revolt, [170]
has a narrow escape, [154]
leaves Egypt, [219]
Luther greater than, [178]
the "Great,", [285]
"with his stockings half-down,", [286]
yields to the opposition of the people, [144]
Bonaparte's best deed for Egypt, [187]
blundering, [144]-148, [265]
dream of an Eastern Empire, [109]
erroneous conception of the people, [71]
failure to understand the Egyptians, [144]
massacre of his prisoners, [206]
policy of cake or cane, [139]
proclamation, [68]
offensive to Moslems, [77]
professed friendship for Islam, [69]
suppression of free speech, [138]
triumphal entry into Cairo, [218]
Boulac besieged by the French, [229]
Fall of, [232]
the port of Cairo, [95]
Bribery in Egypt, [40]
British and Moslems, Friendship between, Preface
Government, Folly of, [223]
see English
Brotherhood of mankind, [15]
Brutality of English laws in 1798, [241]
Brutal sentence, A, [262]
Cadi, or Chief of the Ulema, [160]
Cairenes, Character of, [10]
and French, Mutual satisfaction of, [107]
a stiffnecked people, [168]
attack the Cadi's house, [160]
plundered by Bedouins, [102]
resist the Mamaluk Beys, [113]
their "baptism of fire,", [169]
Cairo, a city of ineffable sadness, [290]
Disorder in, [129]
Improvements in, [9]
in 1798 safer than London, [128]
Lighting of streets in, [131]
night in the old town, [9]
Panic in, [98]
in time of Mamaluks, [97]
Reform of weights and measures in, [181]
Cap of Liberty in Cairo, The, [155]
Character of Egyptians,
see Egyptian
Christian Missions, [353]
protection of vice, [269]
slaves in Africa, [50]
Christians and European civilisation, Eastern, [213]
better off than the Moslems, [245]
defended by Moslems, [62], [227], [245]
Christians in Cairo, Evil influence of, [199]
Treatment of, by Moslems, [137]
Two classes of, [58]
join Moslems in opposing French reforms, [158]
less oppressed than the Moslems, [200]
of Cairo and the French, [201]
Offensive conduct of, [137], [202]
responsible for the sufferings of the Moslems, [247]
Christ's philosophy, [192]
Church of Rome, Credulity in, [178]
Civilisation and Empire, incompatible aims, [273]
Eastern views of, [213]
Egyptian view of, [195]
in 1798, [148]
The highest, [380]
True, [196]
won with blood and tears, [215]
Cockade in Egypt, The French, [67], [142]
Gabarty on the wearing of the, [144]
Commune in Paris, [58]
Condition of Egyptians before the French invasion, [27]
Copts, or native Christians of Egypt, The, [59]
and Moslem Egyptians of same race, [59], [124]
Causes affecting the character of, [124]
their superiority to Moslem Egyptians, [124]
Corruption in Egypt, Official, [304]
Corsairs of the Barbary coast, [50]
Council of State at Cairo,
see Dewan
Credulity, Egyptian and European, [177], [178]
Creeds, Influence of, [201]
Cromer,
see Lord Cromer
"Cromer's pets," [395]
Crusades, Traditions of the, in Egypt, [49]
"Custom of the East, The," a false excuse, [240]
Cutting of the Khalig, ceremony at Cairo, [140], [219]
Daily life of the Egyptians, [385]
Dawn of the Modern period, [34], [271]
Demagogues in the East, [252]
Denshawi incident, The, [374]
Dervishes, or "Monks of Islam," [96]
Despotism, Mill on a benevolent, [388]
Dewan, or Council of State, [43], [48], [133]
Last official act of the Mamaluk, [63]
of Cairo suspended and reformed, [157]
reformed a second time, [197]
revived by General Menou, [264]
Discipline, glorious and inglorious, [206]
Discontent in Cairo under the French, [135]
Dress, The healthiest, in the East, [214]
Dupuy, Death of General, [165]
East, The glamour of the, [20]
Eastern Christians and European civilisation, [214]
ideas of justice and mercy, [253]
Eastern peoples chiefly divided by their religions, [256]
Easterns are led, not driven, [252]
Education in Egypt, [350]
Eed, The, or day of sacrifice, [207]
Egypt and the Powers, [391]
Condition of, in 1798, [46]
Foreign rulers of, [23]
in 1906 and 1882, compared, [389]
"for the Egyptians,", [398]
Egyptian, A brilliant, scholar, [180]
and Arab character contrasted, [41]
adaptability, [151]
a mystery to Europeans, [17]
anxious to please and easily pleased, [386]
credulity, [177]
desire for peaceful progress, [383]
"Fatalism,", [112], [124]
faults and failings, Preface
fond of novelties, [175]
gratitude, [242], [334]
greatly misunderstood, Preface
hero-worship, [189]
incapacity for self-government, [111], [396]
impulsiveness, [83]
"Ingratitude,", [185], [263]
lack of initiative, [363]
lax in their religion, [163], [249]
love of freedom, [123], [344]
loyalty, [263], [345]
to the Sultan and Islam, [30], [32], [72]
misunderstood by Bonaparte, [144]
national character not yet formed, [312]
naturally honest, [85]
not always tactless, [104]
not bigoted, [151]
reticence, [301]
self-control, [372], [380]
undergoing change, [382]
wrongly accused, [243]
The, as an individual, [385]
The, historian Gabarty,
see Gabarty
history, The most interesting century in, [13]
Six great landmarks of, [25]
Three periods of, [22]
idea of civilisation, [195]
idea of freedom and liberty, [123], [145], [344]
ignorance of other countries, [34]
indifference to the invasion of Syria, [205]
standard of good and evil, [212]
reasoning illustrated, [39]
mosques monuments of shame, not of glory, [23]
newspapers, [376], [382]
opinion of England's duty in Egypt, [359]
of Bonaparte's government, [184]
of Bonaparte's proclamation, [69]
of the French, [195]
of English, how formed, [298], [300]
Egyptians accustomed to free speech, [139]
allied to Asiatic peoples, [18]
Causes affecting the character of, [117], [378]
and French after the revolt, [171]
and the Boer War, [327]
and their rulers, [73]
ask for Mamaluks as officials, [133]
begin to have a political existence, [28]
compared with the Anglo-Saxons, [115]
to Scotch Sabbatarians, [353]
Condition of, compared with that of French and English, [116]
their grievances under the Mamaluks, [145]
in 1798 better than that of the English, [115]
under the Arabs, [30]
Mamaluks, [73], [145]
Pharaohs, [27]
Turks, [31]
oppressed by Christians, [247]
difficulty in understanding Englishmen, [361]
distrustful of the English, [12]
divided in opinion, [382]
five classes of, [385]
Tourists' opinions of, [18]
uninfluenced by those of former times, Modern, [25]
Empire and civilisation incompatible aims, [273]
Links between ancient and modern, [22]
Philosophy of the, [192]
their attitude towards the French, [84]
their conversion to Islam, [28]
their sufferings due to Christians, [247]
tortured by the French, [130]
England's best gift to Egypt, [334]
duty to Egypt, [393]
strength in the East, [302]
English
and French rivalry, Effect of, [35]
and Islam, [381]
approaching Islamic ideals, [196]
aristocracy, Decay of the, [349]
cads, Evil influence of, [347]
Empire-makers, [347]
Government in 1798, [273]
must remain in Egypt, [392]
occupation, Newspaper attacks on, [383]
self-sufficiency, [151]
taxpayer's most costly luxury, [350]
Unpopularity of the, [347]
Englishmen imperfectly understood by Egyptians, [361]
in Egypt in 179, [34]
Europe and the East, [274]
of to-day and of a century ago, [241]
European and Egyptian cannot coalesce, [186]
and Oriental thought, [17]
civilisation in the East, Hall-mark of, [270]
colonists in Egypt, Anti-English feeling of, [306]
credulity, [177]
fear of epidemics, [208]
may study Orientals, How a, [19]
ignorance of life in the East, [150]
kindness and Egyptian gratitude, [242]
misconception of Egyptians, [319]
soldier in 1798, The, [108]
vice in Cairo, [128]
Europeans in Egypt, Influence of, [318]
Europeans, slaves to Moslem masters, [50]
"Even-handed Justice," [258]
Evil-doing cannot be justified, [240]
Fachoda, Capt. Marchand at, [294]
"Faithless French, The," a Turkish phrase, [152]
Fanaticism of Egyptians, Alleged, [30], [249]
at Cairo and in Europe, [57]
due to spiritual leaders of the peoples, [61]
taught to Moslems by Christian missionaries, [354]
"Fatalism" in Egypt, [112], [124]
Franks or European Christians in Egypt, The, [59]
"Fraternity" in Egypt, [199]
French and Cairenes, mutual satisfaction of, [107]
in Egypt, [35]
and Mamaluk rule compared, [275]
and the Egyptian Christians, The, [201]
Arrival of the, [42]
Attitude of the people towards the, [70]
Author's criticisms of, [271]
Condition of, compared with that of the Egyptians, [116]
destroy public buildings in Cairo, [157]
distrusted by the people, [78]
enter Cairo, [107]
experts with Bonaparte, [134]
invasion, the starting-point of the modern period, [24]
Influence of the, [36]
leave Egypt, [267]
occupation, cause of its failure, [273]
Effect of, upon trade, [203]
Evil effects of, [267]
Good effects of, [270]
"Most important event" during, [209]
opinion of Egyptians, [71]
relations with Ireland and India, [37]
welcomed by the Christians of Cairo, [136]
Frenchmen in Egypt in 1798, [34]
of high ideals, [270]
Friendship between British and Moslems, Preface, [380]
Gabarty, Egyptian historian, [96], [181]
censures the Mahomedans, [96], [221]
character of his history, [209]
personal character, [179], [181]
his criticisms of Moslems and Christians, [96], [99], [221], [246]
origin and family, [180]
on the wearing of the cockade, [144]
praises the French, [175]
Gates of the Harahs in Cairo, [135]
Gordon riots in London, [57]
Governing class in Egypt extinct, [389]
Government by force, [251]
of Egypt in 1798, [42]
Governor of Cairo, [45]
Greeks and the English occupation, [306]
Haeckel and the Monists, [15]
Hall-mark of European civilisation, [270]
"Handyman, The," training of, [364]
Hero of civilisation, The great, [217]
Hero-worship of the Egyptians, [189]
Hindoos and their gods, [189]
Historians, Admissions of, [248]
Mistakes of the, [213], [243]
of Egypt, [268]
perplexed by Mahomed Ali, [284]
by the Copts, [124]
History, Character of true, [15]
Most interesting century in Egyptian, [13]
of Egypt, Early, [12]
Two kinds of, [27]
Unity of, [13]
Honest man, The, [270]
men and rogues, [85]
Horsley on the rights of the people, Bishop, [115]
Humanity, The lowest type of, [193]
Ibrahim Bey, Governor of Cairo, [46], [54], [93]
protects the Christians, [63]
Ideals, English and Oriental, [258]
Influence of, [196], [201]
Indian peoples incapable of self-government, [112]
Moslems' loyalty to the Sultan, [32]
sepoys in Egypt, [267]
Influence of French occupation upon the English occupation, [267]
"Ingratitude" of the Egyptians, [185], [272]
Inventor, A famous Egyptian, [180]
Irish rebels, Pursuit of, [57]
Islam, Despotism in, [78]
favourable to freedom, [30]
Fidelity of Egyptians to, [30], [33]
inconsistent with radicalism, [379]
Progressive thought natural to, [144]
Democratic spirit of, [77]
teaches self-respect, [200]
Islamic ideals being approached by England, [196]
spirit affects the Egyptians less than other peoples, [29]
Ismail Pacha, [292]
Jaffa, Massacre by the French at, [206]
Jews, Character of the, [126]
in Cairo, [249]
join the Moslems in opposing French reforms, [158]
Journalism of to-day, [323]
Justice and Mercy, Eastern idea of, [253]
Even-handed, [258]
under the French and the Mamaluks, [198]
Kasr el Aini Hospital, [48]
Khedive, difficulty of his position, The, [391]
Kleber succeeds Bonaparte, General, [220]
Assassination of, [259]
Knowledge in Egypt, Spread of, [356]
Koran, the "Word of God," The, [77], [258]
Korbag, its use in Egypt, [123]
Laboratory at Cairo, French, [176]
Law of retaliation, Moslem, [257]
Leaders of the people, [252]
Legislative Council of Egypt, [28]
Liberty, Egyptian ideas of, [123], [145], [344]
"Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,", [130], [197], [243]
of Press in Egypt, [330]
Library at Cairo, French, [175]
in Cairo founded by an Egyptian, [181]
Lighting of London and Cairo in 1798, [131], [132]
Links between the Egyptians of the present and past, [22]
London, Safety in Cairo and in, [128]
Lord Cromer and the Press, [330]
Attack on, [376]
a well-wisher of the people, [387]
Egyptian Press on, [376]
his devotion to the Egyptians, [395]
his "pets,", [395]
his resignation, [394]
his work incomplete, [394]
Loyalty of Mohamedans to the Sultan, [281]
of Cairenes to their treaties, [235]
Luther greater than Bonaparte, [178]
Lying policy, The price of a, [285]
Mahars and Mangs of India, [14]
Mahomed Ali, an Arnout, [283]
and his successors, [275]
their influence on the people, [311]
Death of, [289]
essentially a European, [315]
his early history, [277]
impoverishes the people, [288]
his tomb, [290]
the "Great," [285]
Mamaluk and French role compared, [275]
Beys, their contempt for Europeans, [50]
their loyalty to the Sultan, [52]
Mamaluks, better than the French for the Egyptians, [184]
Character of, [44], [126]
and the Egyptians, The, [251]
Marchand at Fachoda, Captain, [294]
effect of his withdrawal, [307]
Massacre by Bonaparte at Jaffa, [206], [285]
of Christians proposed at Cairo, [56]
opposed by Egyptians, [82]
ordered, [226]
of Jews in Russia, [58]
of the Mamaluks, [285]
Mecca, The pilgrimage to, [209]
Menchawi Pacha, Trial of, [365]
Mercy and Justice, Eastern ideas of, [253]
Methodists' anxiety for salvation, [200]
"Ministers" and "Advisers,", [363]
Miracle, A modern, [178]
Moayyad newspaper, The,
see Al Moayyad
Mokattam newspaper, The, [336]
"Monks of Islam," [96]
Morality, European and Oriental ideas of, [269]
Moslem and Christian persecutions contrasted, [61]
distrust of European friendship, [322]
to the Sultan, [281]
"pride," [200]
sentiment outraged, [266]
Moslem treatment of Christians in Cairo, [244]
Moslems and Copts of Egypt of the same race, [124]
in Egypt more oppressed than Christians, [200]
protect Christians, [62], [227], [245]
Mosques destroyed by the French, [157]
Murad Bey, his character, [54]
Military Chief of the Mamaluks, [46]
Music, Effect of Arab, on the people, [96]
National character, Effect of circumstances on, [16]
"Nationalist" party, [378], [383]
Negroes and their leaders, [253]
Nelson at Alexandria, [37]
New era, Birthday of the, [309]
Newspaper attacks on the English occupation, [383]
Newspapers, Influence of Arabic, [384]
"No Popery" riots in London, [57]
Object of this book, Preface, [21], [396]
Occupation, Good done by the English, [386]-7
Official corruption, [304]
Officials in Egypt, Minor, [302]
Training of, [365]
Oriental and European thought, [17]
Orientals capable of high education, [18]
Orientals' difficulty in understanding Europeans, [18]
Panics in Europe and elsewhere, [100]
Pan-Islamism, [324]
Pan-Islamism the true interest of the Moslem world, Preface
Peace, The people of Cairo refuse, [232]
price of, [237]
without honour, [197]
Persian deserts, The villagers of the, [13]
Pharaohs, Egypt under the, [27]
Philosophy, Christ's, the philosophy of the East, [192]
Pilgrimage to Mecca, The, [209]
Pitiable "Greatness,", [287]
Plague in Cairo, [156], [208]
Police, An infamous Chief of, [260]
Policy, Price of a lying, [285]
Politeness has a limit, Egyptian, [142]
Popular science in 1798, [176]
Poverty in Egypt and in India, [129]
in England and the East, [122]
Prayer, An omitted, [207]
Precision, French love of and Egyptian dislike to, [131]
Pro-English Press, [369], [371], [374]-5
Progress, a flight from evil, [215]
The great hindrance to, [318]
Progressive thought in Islam, [144]
Prosperity of Egypt under Said Pacha, [292]
Radicalism inconsistent with Islam, [379]
Ramadan, Fast of, [205]
Reform of weights and measures in Cairo, [181]
Reforms, French, opposed by Moslems, Christians, and Jews, [158]
how regarded by the Egyptians, [145]
in Cairo under Bonaparte, [130]
Reign of Terror in France, [58]
Religion the chief division among Orientals, [256]
Representative government not desired by the people of Egypt, [357]
Retaliation, The Moslem law of, [257]
Revolt of the Cairenes, [165]
"Rights of Man, The," in Cairo, [155]
Rise of the Nile feast in Cairo, The, [140], [219]
Rogues and honest men, [85]
Ruskin's parable of the children, [191]
Said Pacha, [291]
Sayed Mahomed Kerim, Governor of Alexandria, [40]
Execution of, [146]
Sayeds or Shereefs, Respect paid to, by Mahomedans, [40]
Scotch Sabbatarians, Egyptians compared to, [353]
Servants in Egypt, Character of, [373]
Sheikh Ali Youssef, [331]
Siege of Cairo, [217], [229]
Slaves, Christian, in Africa, [50]
Statesman's first study, [265]
Sultan and the Ulema, [281]
Moslem loyalty to, [281]
Survival of the unfittest, [189]
Syria, French invasion of, [204], [217]
Syrians accuse Moslems falsely, [204]
Tabah, the incident, [369]
Telescope of the Egyptians, Mental, [39]
Tewfick Pacha, [293]
Tombs destroyed by the French, [157]
Torture in Cairo under the French, [130], [240], [260]
Tourists' opinions of Easterns, [18]
Training of officials, [365]
Treasures that are ours for eternity, [192]
Turkish army arrives from Syria, [220]
conquest, Effects of, [31]
estimate of the French, [152]
Turks in Cairo, Outrageous conduct of, [222], [276]
Tyranny, Bonaparte's petty, [140]
in England, France, and Egypt, [117]
of Turkish troops, [222]
of the French in Egypt, [244], [264]
Ulema, The, advocates of the people's rights, [116], [357]
and the Sultan, [281]
authority of, [356]
beneficial influence of, [357]
Bonaparte's treatment of, [149]
character of, [50]
intercede for peace, [168]
their relations to the people, [51]
to the Mamaluks, [52]
the term defined, [50]
the true representatives of the people, [356]
Ungrateful people, An, [259]
Vice in Cairo under Consular protection, [128]
Open, in Moslem lands under Christian protection, [269]
Wine-shops in Cairo, [137]
Zikrs, religious chanting so called, [141]
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