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The idea that Europeans had a moral duty to impose their civilization, religion, and value system on people of other cultures, often with no consideration for their own religious and moral beliefs, is perhaps best expressed in "The White Man's Burden" (1899), a popular poem by Rudyard Kipling:
Take up, the White Man's burden-
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
Take up the White Man's burden-
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit
And work another's gain.
Take up the White Man's burden—
The savage wars of...
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