What Can We Learn From Them?

In a lot of ways, it feels like a little prototype of the ways in which white women engage in colonialist projects and then give them a kinder, gentler edge. She was a pion in mentioning sort of the effect of poverty, but she also includes in her dissertation a straightforward defence of colonialism. No force on earth can prevent civilization from spreading its tendrils. The most that colonial government can do is to prevent exploitation by pruning the predatory tendrils by encouraging the growth of those that seem beneficial. There is nothing that civilization has to offer which is better than the welfare of children.