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prospectors are chipping rocks on Rurwonxori'a flanks= and the
German scientist is hunting bugs on Kariesinbi''s 6lopeo. 11
The sense of a civilizing mission wan associated with a feeling
of spacial 'destiny, "" "The regeneration of a continent has been
committed to our hands and we must strive to prove worthy of the
high and holy mission', entrusted to us. '$ (2) Aa early as 1677
Edward Dicey wan asserting that Englishmen had a ''manifest destiny"
to found Empires,
(3)
A writer in the rational Ieviow# in 1886,
referred to "... the seat task Providence has assigned to it
(the British Empire) of carrying the commerce1 colonizatibn and
civilization of an English-speaking race over the whole earth*"(4)
The idea of Providence gave Empire a peculiarly religious
justification,
» Cardinal Vaughan stated in a sermon during the
Boer 'War, "This Empire bas boon rained up by the same Providence
that called the Roman. Empire into existence$ and an God used the
one towards the attainment of his awn divine purposes of mercy,
no does he seem to be using the other.
" (5)
(1) The nnirennd the Centurjt op cit, p. 809.
The Bishop of Hereford
(2) A. L. Brucea$ Care to Cairo or Britainin n hero of influence ii
Af
, Edinburgh$ 1 920 p* 469
(3) I! inet enth Centtr % Deptembor 1877, PPn" 292.. 308, Be Dicoy,
"ps. (Ll¬uiatone and our Empire",
(l) YNa.
tjenn1 Devicw, January 1ß86i op cit, p. 658.
{5) tor npcinc t Wary, 29th Docamber 1899.