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de Lesseps will have increased the debt which the 

 friends of progress and of civilisation owe to him if, 

 by writing the history of his great work in Egypt, he 

 shall have inculcated upon some of us the danger of 

 speaking too dogmatically upon subjects of which our 

 knowledge is necessarily imperfect, and in most cases 

 second or even third-hand. 



C. B. PITMAN. 



October, 1887. 



