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Froude at heart, if not in act — England's best and greatest on the 

 spiritualistic side; men to whom the distance between the white and 

 the colored races was infinite, investing the former with absolute 

 rights. With them were the military and official classes, high 

 churchmen and conservatives generally. '^ 



Sometimes there is a humanitarian sentiment in the air, as in that 

 same year when a chief justice could charge violently against the 

 Jamaica authorities, and the Tory leader (then Lord Robert Cecil) 

 was so far carried away as to lament that white men held the lives 

 of others cheap because they had a black skin. It is far otherwise 

 now. High-handed modes of building up an empire enlist many de- 

 fenders. " You can not make an omelette without breaking the eggs," 

 cynically quotes M. Cherbuliez. Clive would find few calumniators in 

 our days. Hastings would run no risk of impeachment. Dupleix 

 would not be sacrificed. Frere would not be recalled. The protests 

 of the Aborigines Protection Society against Stanley's " wading 

 through slaughter to " Emin raise no echo. The himianitarian wave 

 of the last generation is spent. 



The devil's advocate has always plenty to say for himself. The 

 savages practiced sanguinary rites, like the Ashantis and the Da- 

 homans. They were the allies of our enemies, like the Hurons (say 

 the English), like the Iroquois (say the Erench). They were already 

 exterminating themselves, like the red Indians and Maoris, when we 

 interposed and saved the remnant. They were being destroyed by 

 strong drink and swindled by landsharks, like these same Maoris. 

 They were a disturbing element on our frontier, like the Afridis. 

 They were naked and bestial and a gang of murderers, like all the 

 East Africans. They were a hindrance to the occupation of the soil — 

 in short, they kept the land we wanted to take. " The starving white 

 man must be satisfied," frankly confesses Mr. Stanley, '' or he will 

 grow ugly." 



The would-be saint's advocate has some difficulty in replying. He 

 condemns, even now, the fraud, injustice, and oppression that are the 

 foundation stones of British India. At a far greater distance of time 

 he still condemns the ruthless exterminating war against man and 

 beast which the Hebrew's waged in Canaan. He listens with sympa- 

 thy to Emerson's manly protest against the deportation of the Chero- 

 kees, and to Richard Howitt's and William Ilowitt's diatribes 

 against colonization as giving the lie to Christianity. He reads (with 

 an effort) the earnest plaidoyer in behalf of the Maoris which Mr. Rus- 

 den calls a History of 'New Zealand. He acknowledges it to be the 

 glory of the sex that the three most powerful appeals ever made for 

 justice to a native race have been made by women — in world-famous 

 Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson's pathetic Ramona, 



