text:  Whether even the famous Pasha is not still too much of a Turk to venture on an experiment which was never heard of in the land of a Mahometan before must be a matter more for the prophet than the politician; but Egypt so long the most abject of nations and the perpetual slave of a stranger seems rapidly approaching to European civilization and by her association with Englishmen and her English alliance may yet be prepared to take a high place among the regenerated governments of the world