It was rather their duty to spread to other nations those advantages which through the course of the centuries they had won for themselves." ... Backing this further, this almost false yet Whig way of looking at the British Empire meant an arguably ignorant view that the Empire was the white man's" burden and during its end was honourably discharged but deliberately wound up meaning there was absolutely no shame in the loss of the British Empire, rather they felt they had proudly come to a deserved end, passing on sovereignty to their "loyal" subjects.Darwin, arguably blaming the decline ...

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