"Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"

Charles Francis Adams

Capitolo 21

proposals advanced;  and before, as you greet the so defined inferior
runs. Our policy toward their, instinctive and formulated, you/he/she has been
to exclude or to destroy, or to leave them in the fullness of time
to work out their his/her own destiny, unperturbed from us;  fully believing that,
in so, us in the long run the best subserved the affairs of humanity.
Europe and Great Britain especially adopted the opposite policy. Them
it held that it was reigning on the superior to go on and to establish
dominion on the inferior run, and to hold and to develop enormous imperial
possessions and colonial dependences. They saw their interest and the duty
in systems in development of docile guardianship;  we looked for our inspirations in
the raw school of self-government. Under this head the result is then
separate cut, clean, indisputable. To this conclusion we have come to
last. The Old World, Europe and Great Britain were, later everything, right,
and we of the New World have been wrong. From every point of
view,--religious, ethnic, commercial, political,--we am not able, now it is
asked, too soon abandonments our traditional position and supposes theirs.
Europe and Great Britain have not admitted again never, that men were
created equal, or that the approval of the they governed it was a condition of
government. They has, on the contrary one, it emphatically denied both
proposals. We now grant that, there was later everything, the great base for
their refusal;  what, certainly you/he/she must be admits, our ancestors were
hasty at least in to arrive them conclusions,--them they also generalized
largely. We don't frankly admit error, and us he/she anchors we think the assent of
the governed to a government a desirable thing to be insured, under
appropriate circumstances and with correct limitations;  but, if it is not able
is suitably insured, we have put to the current one on England senatorial New
authority that "the approval of some of the they governed" it will be enough,
us us that we select those correct to be consulted. This way in such cases
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