Imperialist foreign policies invoked paternalistic and (erroneous) racial theories based partly on evolution. Author Rudyard Kipling refers to this biased Imperialist viewpoint as 'the white man's burden.' Which of the following best explains this phrase and its assumptions?

MCQs on the ways in which the Victorian novel came to grapple with ideas and issues of that time period. And the methods by which the novels of this age represented (and intervened in) social, political, scientific, philosophical, and cultural concerns.