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wrong fgr all strata of society because it wan immoral
and unChriotian. It was not only an unfortunate
errors but a sin and a crime against humanity. Greed
for territory offended against tronconformint values of
respect for the rights of other nations, non«intervontion
and the pursuit of peace. But Nonconformists might
unwittingly become Imperialists by their very teal to
spread liberal values, - as in the Egyptian occupation
of 1882. One disadvantage for the anti-Imperialist
position wan that Nonconformity and the essentially
moral values it represented were becoming old-fashioned
by 1900 and their appeal to the public was declining.
Moral arguments in any case were effectively
chocked when they came up against more persuasive
moral claims in they shape of humanitarian Imperialism
which caw oxpahian an n cure for the evils of the slave
trade, or as an infallible method of winning Christian
converts. The Nonconformists tended to side atop
these arguments, the Socialist to condemn them as
blatant hypocrisy. Neither approach was convincing to