A Prize Essay
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Excerpt from A Prize Essay: Read in the Theatre, Oxford, June 8, 1864 The later course of European thought may be described as the battle of Impartiality against Power. National prejudice and the wrecks of mediæval fanaticism conspired to check the immortal spirit they could not bind. Civilization has been a fellow-sufferer with philosophy and religion. Men have always been apt to regard it as the exclusive product of one age and clime and to strive to impress on less favoured races a stereotyped form of their own imagining. Rarely, and how rarely! the race whose path they cross is equal to them in body, and hardly inferior to them in mind, then, while the penalty bears heavily on the mind, the body is exempt. The one becomes weak and stunted, the other is a Samson yet, though asleep and in chains. But when the invading race is at once both stronger and wiser, sometimes quickly by the sword, sometimes slowly by its awkward kindness, it too often kills both mind and body. And this is the danger to apprehend for native races, when the common talk of Englishmen allows but one enlightened age and country. What England is to them, that was the Spain of Charles V. to the followers of Cortes and Pizarro; out of Spain civilization was not, - the scanty remnants of the Indian nations are the fruits of their policy. May not the unpopularity of English rule in the East be traced up to a current opinion that civilization and barbarism differ, not only in degree, but in kind? The error may perhaps have arisen for want of observing the phenomena. Many as these are, and not always distinct, the deduction on the whole may be briefly stated thus. Civilization and barbarism are not absolute, but relative, not real, but conventional, the outer links in an unbroken chain reaching from the Andaman Islander (we no longer say the Hottentot) to the Greek or the Englishman. Doubtless co-operation is the test of culture, but the germ of it is found even in savage life. A little more of the combining power, a little higher in the scale of culture. There are degrees even in African savagery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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