767). Jules Ferry, in On French Colonial Expansion (1884) in Selections on Imperialism, provided the most thorough arguments for this thought. He explained in detail how “the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races” (Ferry, p. 7). He felt that it was France's moral duty to conquer part of Africa and fulfill its higher duty of civilizing the people. Another example comes from the British Missionary Letters: “All the men and all the money used to civilize and Christianize the New Hebrides were British” (Paton, p. 1). This means that they should not let go of the island because everything that has been done so far with the population has been the work of the English and it would have all been a