Anglo-Saxonism, Pan-Germanism, and the likeare such synthetic ideas. Until the eighties, the general tendencyof progressive thought was at one with the older Christian traditionwhich ignored "race," and the aim of the expansive liberalismmovement, so far as it had a clear aim, was to Europeanise theworld, to extend the franchise to negroes, put Polynesians intotrousers, and train the teeming myriads of India to appreciate theexquisite lilt of The Lady of the Lake.
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