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A good deal of Rhodeel Ymporialicm was based on beliefs of
racial superiority, On the one hand he was concerned with
practical commercial and financial schemes and on the other hand
with a millennial plan for a secret society which would extend
the Empire over a large oroa of the world. This was eventually
modified into a more modest proposal for the Rhodos Oxford
Scholarships which ware` to be allocated between 'South Africa,
Australia, Canada$ the Wont Indies and tho-Anglo-Saxon and
Toutonic nations of Germany and the United'Staten. (None were
available for India or Egypt whore the colourod races were in a
majority). The rules-for the awarding of the scholarships chow
the priorities of an Imperialist; two thirds of the required
points were to be alloted for the qualities of manhood, courage,
Ioaderohtp and character and proweao at athletics, -under a
third for academic ability,
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Thoro lore a number of atrandc in Imperialist 14oology
- in relation to both old and now ZDporinliom. Some essentially
practical arguments could be put forward. In the first place
the colonies might provide a field for emigrations -a useful
punnooa for doproccion and , unoaployment at home. It. wao pointed
out that "An emigrant may turn to any quarter of the globo ho
ploaoooy but still find himaeli a subject of queen Victoria and
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