“ Intrinsic merit is the only title of a dominant race to its possessions. ”
Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898). copy citation
| Author | Winston Churchill |
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| Source | The Story of the Malakand Field Force |
| Topic | merit possession |
| Date | 1898 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9404/9404-h/9404-h.htm |
Context
“It is also apparent how very serious the consequences would be if they imagined they possessed any superiority. That such an assumption should even be possible is a menace to our very existence in India. Intrinsic merit is the only title of a dominant race to its possessions. If we fail in this it is not because our spirit is old and grown weak, but because our soldiers are young, and not yet grown strong.
Boys of twenty-one and twenty-two are expected to compete on equal terms with Sikhs and Gurkhas of thirty, fully developed and in the prime of life.”
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