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the European estimate of the value of life to the coloured 
peoples with whom we come in contact. In the two branches 
of the Anglo-Saxon race there appears to be some divergence 
in this matter; the attitude of aloofness towards the negro even in 
which charactefises the United States generally, and the long hy ease nf 
frontier wars with the Indians, have tended to produce a tone Peps 
of sentiment in regard to black, red, and yellow races with 
which the Englishman does not find himself in full sympathy. 
At the same time the horror of grandmotherly interference by 
the Government appears to be stronger in America than in 
Europe generally or in England, and the sense that it is the 
business of the individual to take care of himself and preserve 
his own life militates against the exercise of police super- 
vision and protection on a large scale. There are no means 
of gauging it accurately or instituting a definite comparison, 
but it certainly appears that the duty of the State to protect 
the persons and lives of men of all races alike is less clearly 
recognised in the United States than it is among the other 
branches of the English race. It is to a large extent the 
consciousness of this difference of sentiment which gives the 
Englishman a feeling of destiny in regard to the exercise of 
influence over subject peoples. Free play for the men of all 
races to attain to the best that is in them is the principle 
which British rule has sedulously endeavoured to realise in 
all parts of the globe, by introducing institutions for the 
protection of life and property, and for giving all possible 
scope to varieties of tradition, sentiment and culture. There 
is little danger of underrating the greatness of the task that 
has thus come to our hands. But to men who are men, these 
very difficulties sound a call of duty; and the best of the 
coming generation are showing a keen enthusiasm to have 
their personal part in the mission of England, and to serve 
their country in any part of the world. 
285. The only parallel with England in the work on TkeRoman 
which she has now entered is to be found, not in any of the Fad to. dead 
peoples of the modern world, but in the Roman Empire of “i the 
ancient times. There is the same complex political®problem, »roblems, 
from the wide extent of the Empire and from the fact that in 
50 many parts of it two or more races with distinct sentiment 
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