 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The Greeks considered their way of life better than that of the barbarians, and after Alexander this belief took an imperialistic form. ... The Romans inherited this Hellenistic outlook in their successful civilizing of the West. Later, Christians and Mohammedans took a similar view of the importance of their respective religions. ... Macaulay had no doubt that it was our beneficent mission to bring our literature, our law, and our philosophy to the help of the backward nation for which Providence had made us responsible.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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