Whitelaw Reid: “Have the grandsons so degenerated that they are incapable of…”

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Have the grandsons so degenerated that they are incapable of colonizing at all, or of managing colonies?

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid questions whether the descendants of successful colonizers have lost their ability to manage colonies.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Have the grandsons so degenerated that they are incapable of colonizing at all, or of managing colonies?”