Tuesday, 15 January 2008

The spread of civilisation

I had then, as I have always continued to have, a very strong feeling as to the wrongs done, in the name of civilisation, to those native races, whom European colonists have dispossessed of their lands, corrupted by introducing forms of vice before unknown to them, & provoked by aggressive acts into wars tending to their extermination

Roundell Palmer: Memoirs 1896

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