just at the turn of the nineteenth century,

拿破仑曾试图让埃及沦为殖民地
and his attempt combined a messianic belief in science and progress,

并将这一尝试同科学进步的救世信念
an absence of any real knowledge about non-Western world,

对非西方世界的一无所知
and a predisposition for the idea

以及认为欧洲白人
that non-white races were inferior to whites, to Europeans.

比有色人种要高贵的观念倾向结合起来
And this was a potent combination of nationalism

正是这种民族主义
with ideas about race and civilization

同种族和文明相关观念的有力结合
that would drive French colonialism until its bitter end.

最终将法国殖民主义推向了痛苦的结局
This combination came to be known in French

这种结合后来在法语里
as the mission civilisatrice, the civilizing mission,

被称作教化使命
the idea that a Greco-Roman heritage, Christianity,

即认为古希腊罗马遗产基督教
the legacy of the Enlightenment, modern science, capitalism,

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