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system of savings banks, undistrainable " homesteads", and a considerable 

 amount of land for improvement, does not yet think fit to urge the peasant, 

 ex abrupto, on the road to syndicalism and mutuality. Certainly, everj' 

 innovation, above all if radical, requires long preparation, at the risk of failin, 

 miserably and obtaining results contrary to those looked for. We cannotg 

 however, deny that Egypt, through the action especially of Prince Hussein 

 and the Khedivial Society of Agriculture, is being more and more prepared 

 for the proposed end, so that the day cannot be far off when the ideals 

 of lyufty Bey, now embodied in M. Ribet's proposals, will definitely come to 

 be realised. 



