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The Republic.
England and Language Movements .
There are some Irishmen who are not
wholly convinced that the Language move-
ment must be the first plank on the national
platform, but the most superficial study of the
methods by which peoples crushed under alien
rule have regained their freedom will show
them that this is the key of the whole problem.
England at least entertains no illusions on this
score, and wherever she has had to face a
national movement her heaviest blows have
been aimed at the native language. That has
notoriously been her policy in Ireland; she
strove to wipe out the Taal in South Africa
till the Boers proved too strong for her, and
in Egypt she is playing exactly the same
game. The political side of Lord Cromer’s
report has already been dealt with, but the
official memorandum on Education which is
incorporated with it makes equally significant
reading for Irishmen. Not only does the
paternal Government scoff at the idea of the
Egyptians managing their own affairs, but it
is steadily endeavouring to destroy every-
thing that encourages national sentiment.
An Egyptian boy, the moment he enters a
secondary school, has to forget his own lan-
guage, and think in French or English, and
Arabic has been banished entirely as a medium
of instruction in the professional colleges.
The new generation are encouraged to regard
as effete and despicable “a language which
cnshriues one of the great literatures of the
world, and was the medium through which
medizeval Europe learned its logic and its
mathematics. The Feneral Assembly has
unanimously demanded that it should again
occupy its proper place, but, as that body has
only power to advise and not to legislate, its
recommendations are set aside in the report
as the “idealistic ‘aspirations of a narrow
nationalism.” The Egyptians, however, are
not now as easily coerced as in former days,
and already large sums of money have been
collected to establish a National University.
Its promoters applied for a Government
grant, but the administration, so whole-
heartedly devoted to furthering the best in-
terests of the people, frankly reply that no
support can be given to the institution unless
it “bases its instruction largely on a Euro-
pean language.”
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