Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
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The Victorians were believers. They believed in their Christian Master, in their providential destiny, in their servants of steam and steel, in themselves and their systems, and not least in their Empire. As the mysteries of life were unfolded to them, explicitly in the triumphs of applied science, opaquely in intellectual conceptions like the Survival of the Fittest, so their own particular place in the divine scheme seemed ever more specific: they were called to be the great improvers, and the... instrument of their mission was empire.
This was a complex illusion. At one level it was purely Christian trust, unquestioning—‘Truly there is a God in Heaven!’ exclaimed the Reverend Richard Taylor when the ship Sobraon, escaping unscathed from Wellington Harbour after the New Zealand earthquake of 1848, immediately ran aground on a rock through an error of navigation, drowning sixty people. The mission stations which, throughout the second half of the century, sprang up throughout the tropical possessions, were manned by and large by militants with no doubts—this was a Christian Empire, and it was the imperial duty to spread the Christian word among its heathen subjects.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Victorians were believers. They believed in their Christian Master, in their providential destiny, in their servants of steam and steel, in themselves and their systems, and not least in their Empire. As the mysteries of life were unfolded to them, explicitly in the triumphs of applied science, opaquely in intellectual conceptions like the Survival of the Fittest, so their own particular place in the divine scheme seemed ever more specific: they were called to be the great improvers, and the... instrument of their mission was empire.
This was a complex illusion. At one level it was purely Christian trust, unquestioning—‘Truly there is a God in Heaven!’ exclaimed the Reverend Richard Taylor when the ship Sobraon, escaping unscathed from Wellington Harbour after the New Zealand earthquake of 1848, immediately ran aground on a rock through an error of navigation, drowning sixty people. The mission stations which, throughout the second half of the century, sprang up throughout the tropical possessions, were manned by and large by militants with no doubts—this was a Christian Empire, and it was the imperial duty to spread the Christian word among its heathen subjects.
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