By C. C. Eldridge
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William Huskisson, House of Commons, 2 May 1828, Speeches (1831), Vol. 3, pp. 286-7 Such expressions of a sense of mission, of obligations incurred and responsibilities to be shouldered, as well as outright pride in British achievements overseas, were constantly made throughout the nineteenth century. In 1839, Thomas Carlyle asserted: To the English people in World History, there have been, shall I prophesy, two grand tasks assigned? Huge-looming through the dim tumult of the always incommensurable Present Time, outlines of two 20 The Revival of the Imperial Spirit 21 tasks disclose themselves: the grand industrial task of conquering some half or more of this T erraqueous Planet for the use of man; then secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing how it might be done.
In this respect it provided a neat bridge between the ideas of the mid-and late Victorian ages. The Empire Fights Back Dilke's book rapidly went through three editions. Its optimistic vision of an expansive future for the Anglo-Saxon race caught public imagination. Its tone, the strong appeal to British pride and the values of the mid-Victorians was in marked contrast to the rest of contemporary writing on the empire, such as the recently published two-volume work by Viscount Bury entitled The Exodus of the Western Nations (1865).
Earl Grey, The Colonial Policy of Lord john Russell's Administration {1853), Vol. 1, p. ] There we have races struggling to emerge into civilization, to whom emancipation from servitude is but the foretaste of the far higher law of liberty and progress to which they may yet attain; and vast populations like those of India sitting like children in the shadow of doubt and poverty and sorrow, yet looking up to us for guidance and for help. To them it is our part to give wise laws, good government, and a well ordered finance, which is the foundation of good things in human communities; it is ours to supply them with a system where the humblest may enjoy freedom from oppression and wrong equally with the greatest; where the light of religion and morality can penetrate into the darkest dwelling places.