Upon another man, of origin and education like to mine, a like experience of hardship might have a totally different effect; he might identify himself with the poor, burn to the end of his life with the noblest humanitarianism.
Unlike most others, he contends, British imperialists were often motivated by a strong sense of " Christian humanitarianism" : a willingness to use their power and wealth to do good, even if that was not in their own interests.