Imperialism

Excerpt from Imperialism: A Brief Resume of the Questions of the Day Theorizing, however, has not been a success except in so far as to give many valuable lessons and to apply new ideas to practical conditions (which is the same as to say that new conditions have evolved new ideas), and that governments must, like all other human institutions, be progressive or retrogressive and adapt itself to the wants of the governed. It is not, then, the rich, the powerful, the religious fanatic or superstitious, the ambitious, that we have to fear any more than it is the ignorant, indo lent, vicious, poor, and degraded elements, and not so much either of these as the conditions, religious, politi cal and social, which can and does produce them. 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.