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affirmod1 ",. where there was a progressive and imperial, people
its faith was Protostant0"
(1)
Through its t iooionory
intoratita and belief in a Gad-given Empire, religion gras
cpocially associated with Imperialist sentiment.
Along with racial views went a belief in the special
colonizing abilities of tho British people and its particular
suitability for the mission
, rantbd to it. A writer in 1899
spoke of the "... British secret of governing inferior racoa of a
diatanca, with justice and firmness and with the omalloot
possible exercise of military power.
" (2)
It was thought that
"Colonization is an art in which the Englishman excels beyond
all comparison. " (3)
Thin view even spread to the columns of the
usually anti-ex*pansionict Nonconformist nn d Zndatend ent1 in n
letter which assorted """cif ever there was an Imperial people
in the world, we English are an Imperial people; " (4) The view
was often combined with denigration of the colonial aptitudes of
foreiguere,
"" "Frenchman are about the least euceescful colouioto
in the world. " ýýý
(1) Pall Hall Gazette, 29th September 1898.
(2) Nu rtcrly Rovjaw1 January 18999 ppa. 241.265, "Dcaocracy and
Porcien affairo".
(3) Loci t for the Pro a titian of the Goa al Annual Re arte 1889"
(4) 6th January 1881.
(5ý Echo, 14th Auguat 1884,