Nevertheless, the national movement grows steadily in numbers and in influence, for it is difficult for those who, politically minded, have once known political freedom, to resign themselves to political subjection.
In Egypt the Nationalist movement is naturally smaller and more concentrated than in India and the racial divisions hinder its unity.

Egypt is nominally under the suzerainty of Turkey, though occupied by Great Britain, and now that Turkey has set up a Constitution and a Parliament, patriotic Egyptian politicians are impatient at the blocking out by the British authorities of every proposal for self-government.
As in India, so in Egypt: it is the men of education who are responsible for the Nationalist movement.

And in both countries it is the desire to experiment in representative government, to test the constitutional forms in common use in the West, and to practise the responsibilities of citizenship, that stimulates the movement.

The unwillingness of the British Government to gratify this desire explains the hostility to British rule in India and Egypt.
Japan received a Constitution from the Emperor in 1890, and in 1891 its Diet was formally opened with great national enthusiasm.

It is a two-chamber Parliament--a Council of nobles, and a popularly elected assembly--and only in the last few years have the business men given their attention to it.