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1841–1904 United States
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904), a Welsh-born reporter for the New York Herald, went to Africa in search of missionary and explorer David Livingstone. He was later a British Member of Parliament.
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Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.
We have attacked and destroyed 28 large towns, and 3 or 4 score villages.
Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
I desire some generous and opulent philanthropist, who shall permit me a force for commerce in central Africa.
The recitals of atrocities and bad administrations which have of late been spread about are almost all, if not all, pure reports.
The barge was an invention of my own. It was 40 feet long, 6 feet beam, and 30 inches deep, of Spanish cedar 3/8 inches thick.
England would not have managed the Congo better than King Leopold has done if she had been mistress of it, as she might have become in 1877.
I am certain that not one of the countries who are invited by the newspapers to put itself in its (Belgium's) place would have been able to do better.
They discharge their mission under the most difficult conditions, and I Relieve that I may assert that, from the Governor-General down to the humblest official, there is not one guilty of cruelty.
Only by proving that we are superior to the savages, not only through our power to kill them but through our entire way of life, can we control them as they are now, in their present stage; it is necessary for their own well-being, even more than ours.
[The whole Congo without—the lower Congo] isn't worth a penny.
I crossed Africa from East to West and from West to East, and I never saw any excesses committed. I do not think that from this point of view there is a single sovereign living who has done so much for humanity as Leopold II."
As seen in my loneliness, there was this difference between the Bible and the newspapers. The one reminded one that, apart from God, my life was but a bubble of air, and it bade me remember my Creator; the other fostered arrogance and loneliness.
Though many illusions are of a character we should gladly cherish, yet the sooner we lose some of them, the sooner we gain the power of seeing clearly into things. The one who possesses least has the best chance of becoming wise. The man who travels, and reflects, loses illusions faster than he who stays at home.
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
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