The success of the British was incompatible with the good of mankind in general, and of the English-speaking races in particular; for they strove to prop up savagery, and to bar the westward march of the settler-folk whose destiny it was to make ready the continent for civilization.
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Roosevelt argues that British success was detrimental to humanity and the progress of civilization in America.
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