founded upon love, moral suasion or benevolence of soul, but by force of arms, conquest and egotism.
In spite of British achievements in colonization, British efficiency is not left unquestioned even by the British themselves. As recently as the 31 st August, 1918, the London “Statist” declared that: “considering what possibilities our Colonies offer, the length of time they have been in our hands, and further, that England possessed the greatest mobilized capital in the world before the war, we can only regard our Colonies as a danger to ourselves and a reproach to the Motherland. For the greater part, they are completely undeveloped wastes. ” *
Value of German Exploration.
Countless English voices in days before the rabies of war dictated policy or indiscriminate abuse of the opponent was considered necessary to patriotism, attest the efficiency as well as the liberality of Germany’s modern colonizing methods.
Sir Harry H. Johnston sums up his judgment of the part played by Germans in the discovery of Africa in the following words:
“In the usual wars with the natives, the Germans had also made the mistakes which are so common in the intercourse between white and black. But science has made enormous progress through the
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