What is to be done, then?
The former device of Providence in such a case was extermination by some more virile stock-- an Attila or a Tamerlane pruned off the weaker branch.

Now, we have a more merciful substitution of rulers, or even of mere advice from a more advanced race.

That is the case with the Central Asian Khanates and with the protected States of India.

If the work has to be done, and if we are the best fitted for the work, then I think that it would be a cowardice and a crime to shirk it." "But who is to decide whether it is a fitting case for your interference ?" objected the American.

"A predatory country could grab every other land in the world upon such a pretext." "Events--inexorable, inevitable events--will decide it.