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Empire. The two often went together as in W. T. Stood who
described his conversion to the new Imperialicra, motivated
by the desire to exert British influence in a positive
direction, - "When in my teens I shrank from any extension
of English authority over the dark skinned races of the
world, but the experience of Fiji
(1) convinced me that
it would be an abdication of duty for England to refuse
to use her Imperial power for maintaining ponce and
putting down piracy and the slave trade among the dark
skinned races of the world.
4' (2)
Awareness of the importance of Africa 'accelerated in the
years 1884.. 3. J,, Carlyle writing in 1885 comiiento4 "The
auh foot of African colonies and colonization in now of
general, shoat of exciting interest, Africa has at last
cone to the forefront. "
(3)
Lord Salisbury rernarkod, "than
I Taft the Foreign Office in 18600 nobody thought of
Africa. khan I returned to it in 988,5, the nations of
Europe were almost quarelling with each other about the
various portions of Africa they could obtain, I do not
exactly know the cause of this sudden revolution, but
irririwwrr-
(1) Frederick Whyte, Life of W. P. fitend, London 1923, Vol 1, po 15? "
(2) The Fiji Islands were annexed in 1674 an a result of the
wishes of the local native leaders and the Australian
colonists.
(3) J. E. Carlyle, African Colonien and Colonization, London
18859 P"2.