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GIVEN a sufficiently detached perspective of the inception and trend of British Colonial development, one might well form an impression not differing greatly from that proceeding from a survey of the workings of human nature. There would be disclosed to one's view such elements as curiosity, adventure, courage, need, opportunism, foolishness, erratic behaviour, much remissness, and unwise discontinuity of effort; but there would also be evident a real tenacity of purpose, a growing element of perception and constructiveness, together with a willingness to recognize past mistakes, and, not least, a determination to make good in the future. Those who are familiar with almost any one of our Colonies will be able to fill in the details of the mixed and not always laudable historical scene.
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Research and Colonial Development. Nature 154, 63–65 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154063a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154063a0