How did the West justify imperialism?
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Source: Karl Pearson, British intellectual, from National Life
from the Standpoint of Science, 1900.
History shows me only one way in which a high state of
civilization has been produced: the struggle of race with
race, and the survival of the physically and mentally fitter
race. The struggle means suffering, intense suffering, while
it is in progress; but that struggle and that suffering have
been the stages by which the white man has reached his
present stage of development. They are why he no longer
lives in caves and feeds on roots and nuts.
You will see that my view-and I think it may be called the
scientific view-is that a nation must be kept up to a high
pitch [level] of effectiveness by contest [competition]:
chiefly by way of war with inferior races, and with equal
races by the struggle for trade-routes and for the sources of
raw material. This is the natural history view of mankind,
and I do not think you can subvert [go against] it.
You may say: Let us cease this cruel and bloodthirsty
struggle; let us leave the lands of the world to the races that
cannot fully profit by them; let us cease to compete in the
markets of the world. However, science clearly tells us this:
a community of men is as subject as a community of ants or
as a herd of buffaloes to the laws which rule all organic
nature. We cannot escape from them; it serves no purpose
to protest at what some term the "cruelty" or
"bloodthirstiness" of natural law.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F7c6a3dff-6729-485c-933e-bf615eefedb6%2F1684ac29-24dd-4ac1-af33-b51dd5746f8f%2F1y07j6l_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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Source: Karl Pearson, British intellectual, from National Life
from the Standpoint of Science, 1900.
History shows me only one way in which a high state of
civilization has been produced: the struggle of race with
race, and the survival of the physically and mentally fitter
race. The struggle means suffering, intense suffering, while
it is in progress; but that struggle and that suffering have
been the stages by which the white man has reached his
present stage of development. They are why he no longer
lives in caves and feeds on roots and nuts.
You will see that my view-and I think it may be called the
scientific view-is that a nation must be kept up to a high
pitch [level] of effectiveness by contest [competition]:
chiefly by way of war with inferior races, and with equal
races by the struggle for trade-routes and for the sources of
raw material. This is the natural history view of mankind,
and I do not think you can subvert [go against] it.
You may say: Let us cease this cruel and bloodthirsty
struggle; let us leave the lands of the world to the races that
cannot fully profit by them; let us cease to compete in the
markets of the world. However, science clearly tells us this:
a community of men is as subject as a community of ants or
as a herd of buffaloes to the laws which rule all organic
nature. We cannot escape from them; it serves no purpose
to protest at what some term the "cruelty" or
"bloodthirstiness" of natural law.
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