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corruption and anarchy and tyranny, simply because 
the people for whom the constitution was made did not 
develop the qualities w r hich 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 
which 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. When I was 
in the Soudan I heard a vernacular proverb, based on a 
text in the Koran, which is so apt that, although not an 
Arabic scholar, X shall attempt to repeat it in Arabic: 
“ Allah ma el saberin, izza sabaru ”—God is with the 
patient, if they know 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 religion 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 was 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 
