Throughout Egypt there are signs of the Oriental fooling that
the results of battle proclaim the will of Destiny, and that the victor has moral rights. Not only are the Egyptian officers and soldiers everywhere submitting, which might be the result of calculation, but the people have suddenly changed their attitude. At Zagazig, General Macpherson reports that the population is " submissive," and in Alexandria the temper of the people seems to the Correspondents utterly changed. Not only has insolence disappeared, but ill-will, men yes- terday thoroughly " disaffected" joining to-day in shouts for Wolseley and England. The alteration is, of course,. sot down to servility or the worship of success ; but though those vices exist, they do not explain all the
facts. Asiatics help the conqueror with more internal willingness than the conquered from a conviction that those who conquer are the proper objects of service, that God gives victory, and that He must know best. Servility will ex- plain the lip-worship and the readiness to take service, but it does not account for the readiness to do faithful service. If the hostility continued as before, the newly-submitted would be planning perpetual treacheries ; but that is precisely what does not happen. The people appear to be mesmerised, rather than subdued, as if defeat had changed their conception of the Character of the victors.
