Throughout the article, there is a big recurring contrast between the Oriental and the European; the European view is more civil and noble, and this, in addition to their knowledge, ultimately gives them the justification to colonize Egypt.
Passages in the text that support this are:
- pg 32: “And authority here means for ‘us’ to deny autonomy to ‘it’ – the Oriental country – since we know it and it exists, in a sense, as we know it.”
- pg 38-39: “Orientals or Arabs are… Anglo-Saxon race.”
- pg 43: “… the familiar (Europe, the West, ‘us’) and the strange (the Orient, the East, ‘them’).”
