Colonization is the expansive force of a people; it is its power of reproduction; [...] it is the subjection of the universe or a vast part of it to that people's language, customs, ideas, and laws. A people which colonizes is a people which projects into the future the foundations of its supremacy. [...]
From whatever point of view one looks at the question, from the standpoint of material prosperity and material power, from that of authority and political influence, or from that of intellectual grandeur, it is an incontestable truth that the people which colonizes most is the first people; if it is not the first today, then it will be tomorrow...
(Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, "Colonization and Modern Nations," 1874.)
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