Primary tabs
Transcription
these territories. And in many cases the change
of rulers was to the subject territories of the
Roman Empire a benefit somewhat similar to that
conferred on Hindoo principalities when they were
brought under the authority of the British Crown.
From the history of ancient Colonization
it might have been anticipated that when, on the
reawakening of intellect and peaceful enterprise,
after the torpor and ferocity of the Middle Ages,
the Christian nations of Europe set out on the
work of discovery and Colonization, their
[int......?] with the aborigines of the lands they
occupied would be attended with far happier
results than are now recorded as matters of History.
But there is this important difference betweeen the
earlier and later Colonization;- the invaders and
aborigines of ancient times were so much alike,
in nature and habits, that no great self denial
was required to secure the conquered race
from aversion or extermination. Interest and