MURDER OF 150UTR0S PASHA 4G7 



corruption and anarchy and tyranny, simply because 

 the people for whom the constitution was made did not 

 develop the qualities which alone would enable them to 

 take advantage of it. With any people the essential 

 quality to show is, not haste in grasping after a power 

 whicli it is only too easy to misuse, but a slow, steady, 

 resolute development of those substantial qualities, 

 such as the love of justice, the love of fair play, the 

 spirit of self-reliance, of moderation, which alone enable 

 a people to govern themselves. In this long and even 

 tedious but absolutely essential process, I believe your 

 University will take an important part, ^^''hen I was 

 in the Soudan I heard a vernacular proverb, based on a 

 text in the Koran, w^hich is so apt that, although not an 

 Arabic scholar, 1 shall attempt to repeat it in Arabic : 

 '^ Allah ma el sabe?in, izza sabaru'' — God is with the 

 patient, if they knotv how to wait. 



One essential feature of this process must be a spirit 

 which will condemn every form of lawless evil, every 

 form of envy and hatred, and, above all, hatred based 

 upon rehgion or race. All good men, all the men 

 of every nation whose respect is worth having, have 

 been inexpressibly shocked by the recent assassination 

 of Boutros Pasha. It was an even greater calamity for 

 Egypt than it w^as a wrong to the individual himself. 

 The type of man which turns out an assassin is a type 

 possessing all the qualities most alien to good citizen- 

 ship ; the type which produces poor soldiers in time of 

 war and worse citizens in time of peace. Such a man 

 stands on a pinnacle of evil infamy ; and those who 

 apologize for or condone his act, those who, by word or 

 deed, directly or indirectly, encourage such an act in 

 advance, or detend it afterwards, occupy the same bad 

 eminence. It is of no consequence whether the assassin 



