It would have been the rejection of the modern and scientific colonial method, and the adoption instead of the method which has resulted in the most backward, the least productive, and the least prosperous colonies in the world--the method, in a word, of Spain herself.
Reid critiques the proposed colonial method as outdated and ineffective compared to modern practices.
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