...declaration carrying his name), who would justify European intervention in the East by arguing that "You may look through the whole history of the Orientals...East, and you never find traces of self-government . . . conqueror has succeeded conqueror; one domination has followed another; but never in all the...

...show the beginnings of those capacities for self government . . . having merits of their own . . . You may look through the whole history of the Orientals...in what is called, broadly speaking, the East, and wu never find traces of self-government. — Arthur James Balfour, speech to the House of Commons,...

...'as soon as they emerge into history show the beginnings of those capacities for self-government'. You may look through the whole history of the Orientals...absolute government. All their great contributions to civilisation— and they have been great— have been made under that form of government. Conqueror...

...shown those virtues from the beginning, from the very tribal origins of which we have first knowledge. You may look through the whole history of the Orientals...passed under despotisms, under absolute government. Conqueror has succeeded conqueror; one domination has followed another; but never in all the revolutions...