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144 ‘the interests of’: The Times, 3 December 1908. See also Hyam, Understanding the British Empire, pp. 417–39.
145 ‘injurious and dangerous’: Quoted in Hyam, ‘Concubinage and the Colonial Service: The Crewe Circular (1909)’, p. 182.
145 ‘Pity the poor’: Quoted in Nicholls, Red Strangers, pp. 72–3.
146 ‘Guides! remember the’: Baden-Powell and Baden-Powell, The Handbook for Girl Guides, p. 413.
146 ‘Britain has been’: Ibid., p. 45.
146 They were taught: For example, the headmistress of Wycombe Abbey, who wrote that ‘I think I do not speak too strongly when I say that games [for girls], i.e., active games in the open air, are essential to a healthy existence, and that most of the qualities, if not all, that conduce to the supremacy of our country in so many quarters of the globe, are fostered, if not solely developed, by the means of games’: Jane Frances Dove, quoted in Beale, Soulsby and Dove, Work and Play in Girls’ Schools, p. 398.
146 ‘It is men’s’: Baden-Powell and Baden-Powell, The Handbook for Girl Guides, p. 414.
147 ‘delightful prospects’: Ibid.
147 ‘To a true-hearted’: Ibid., p. 235.
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149 ‘a lascar familiar’: ‘The Bridge-Builders’, in Kipling, Collected Stories, p. 442.
149 ‘kill all weariness’: Ibid., p. 454.
150 ‘This embodiment of’: Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 2.
151 ‘Our work was’: Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures, p. 20.
152 ‘The wily man-eaters’: Ibid., pp. 105–6.
153 ‘prostitutes, small boys’: Jackson, quoted in Miller, The Lunatic Express, p. 387.
153 ‘Pumping-engine employee’: Quoted in Hardy, The Iron Snake, p. 266.
153 ‘Indian trade, enterprise’: Ibid., p. 479.
154 ‘the entire continent’: ‘Confession of Faith’, Oxford, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, MSS Afr. t.1.
156 ‘That book has’: Flint, Cecil Rhodes, p. 24.
156 ‘I contend’: Ibid.
156 ‘It is our duty’: Ibid.
157 ‘the native is’: Verschoyle, Cecil Rhodes, pp. 159, 163.
158 ‘When he stands’: Twain, Following the Equator, p. 708.
159 The imperial historian: Hyam, Britain’s Imperial Century, p. 25.
159 ‘shipful of failures’: ‘The Amateur Emigrant’, in Stevenson, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, ch. XVIII, pp. 10, 14.
160 ‘How like a King’: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, p. 236.
160 ‘the true symbol’: James Joyce, Daniel Defoe, quoted in Hulme, Colonial Encounters, p. 216.
160 ‘brave, ruthless, decisive’: R. H. W. Reece, ‘Brooke, Sir Charles Anthoni Johnson (1829–1917)’, Dictionary of National Biography.
160 ‘I have never’: Quoted in Maugham, Collected Stories, p. xxii.
161 ‘If British East’: Bell, Glimpses of a Governor’s Life, pp. 106–7.
162 ‘primarily Kenya is’: Quoted in Hyam, Understanding the British Empire, pp. 225–6.
164 ‘A fertile and’: William Pember Reeve, Long White Cloud, quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 91.
164 ‘This is what she’: Ruskin, Lectures on Art, pp. 29–30.
165 ‘I do not know’: Most editions of The Voyage of the Beagle do not include this line (Darwin himself made changes to succeeding editions). The line was included in the 1839 Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy, R.N., from 1832–1836. The full passage appears in Nicholas and Nicholas, Charles Darwin in Australia, p. 97.
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168 ‘[From my heart’: Strachey, Queen Victoria, p. 419.
169 ‘should rank in’: The Times, 19 August 1875, quoted in Port, Imperial London, p. 28.
170 ‘How many millions’: Quoted in ibid., p. 31.
170 ‘Up they came’: G. W. Steevens, Daily Mail, 23 June 1897, quoted in Judd, Empire, p. 134.
171 ‘No one ever’: Hibbert, Queen Victoria, p. 457.
171 ‘imperialism is in’: Quoted in Judd, Empire, p. 133, and Hammertown and Cannadine, ‘Conflict and Consensus on a Ceremonial Occasion: The Diamond Jubilee in Cambridge in 1897’, p. 112.
172 ‘patriotism, conventionally defined