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MADAME LUCE, OF ALGIERS. 231
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* For Another Month Madame Allix Struggl...
the influential deputies , and endeavored to _prepossess them in favor of her plans . In Paris she found the official mind more
syinpathe barbarism spirit of and the carelessness native population ( d * insouciance ; against ) which that during envelope - ten of centuries fanaticism has ,
protected conscience , it money from change itself . scattered Even money abroad , that with last appeal chivalric to the profusion Mussulman , has
perhaps step towards given , that us a contag few hypocritical , ious assimilation friends of , but which has we not have advanced been us dreaming by one
for Wh fifteen is years thisgentlemen . ? The reason is simple enough , and I find it in the very y nature , of the obstacles against which we are fighting . the idea and
its Two distinct lishment element ( Videe s exist et le in fait every ) ' . B form y the idea of civilization I understand ; the totality of political accomp , religious , , moral , and executive doctrines which the result obtain of universal all these
doctrines credence ; when and b worked y the accomp out b lishment human , activity or fact , I int mean o forms capable of supplyall the needs of social life y
ing . form These of civilization elements being be admitted _substittrted to exist for another , it then the follows underl that ing before idea must one
can , y be cal easil results y capable worked of naturall transmission y and from without one mind any abrupt to another transition , and the ( solution practile whom it is to
de continuite ) into the customs of the new peop required transform ] SFowon . a very slight acquaintance with the language and customs of the
the country a vehicle impossibility , , it for is civilizing evident of penetrating that ideas on , is the absolutel into one hand Moorish y worthless the famil Algerine ; life and idiom renders that , considere on all the hop oth d e er as of
y fusion , produced by exterior contact with our European activity , a mere illusion
Allow First . . The me to Arabic explain language myself is further at this on day these the same two points as when : , 1262 years ago , it in that semireliioussemi
political a man of mould the stamp , which of is Abd called -el-Kader the Koran poured . The Arabic tongue -g at that , date - to the needs of the
expressed systems new social , and all system the requirements ideas , of which of the of it age society became under , and even hav the the e influence responded organ all changed . But of largel since ; the y then face , the of les the thoug all world hts the ,
has nations European many have times nations been been , thus and renewed subjected consequentl to y successive all the languages and profound new princi spoken modifications p b ; y these .
The Arab , alotiethough placed in a certain degree of contact with countries l his ying within the has , zone remained of this stationary general movement alsoSo , that has remained all the ideas stationary which , have and
blossomed language on the earth during the last thousand . years , all the formulas , all the dogmas , all the aspirations , and all the the instincts which , taken together of ,
make " modern civilizationhave at present day no possible means expression up in the idiom of the , Koran difficult . of ammatical that far
This idiom ismoreoverso gracquirement , the from faculties being able of , a to serve le as , it a an ctuall instrument impede towards s them a by rap the id leng development th of stud of y peopy
required before it can be , reall conditions y utilized intellectuall of ab society y . the familis
_thing n Secondl , ( sense the y . writer In what the mean little existing s to there say is that being there wholl is Ar y littl confined e or no to public the male or y social sex every , ) life and , any ;
_3 3 ver ast our the threshold . Thus of the our famil French y we civilization have never has even glided been over able the as surface yet to of eyes
this the native account population we have , made without no ever real being progress able , no to radical penetrate change its midst , and . that On
Madame Luce, Of Algiers. 231
MADAME LUCE , OF _ALGIERS . 231
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/15/
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