National Affairs: Judgements & Prophecies

Self Government The Right of Every Colony

MONSIGNOR ENRICO CHAPPOULIE, Bishop of Angers, in Paris' LE MONDE:

Colonization is justified morally to the extent to which it constitutes a service rendered by the colonial power to the people which one day she put under her authority. We mean by this service, primarily education, both moral and material. The end of a well-conducted education must be the emancipation of the educated subject, who has become capable of governing himself through the very activity of his teachers. The Church, therefore, could not accept taking sides with those...

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