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| | The White Man's Burden |
 | | The decent White Man, European White Man that is, is under an obligation to rule them, these lesser races, to encourage them in their development, until they can take their rightful place in the world, always subordinate of course to their betters. |
 | | Six months after White Man's Burden was published, he wrote The Old Issue, a stinging criticism of the Boer War, an attack on the unlimited and despotic, power of kings (the monarchies). |
 | | After the death of Alfred Lord Tennyson (who Kipling had mocked with 'The Last of the Light Brigade'), Kipling was the obvious choice to succeed Tennyson as Poet Laurette, and yet Kipling turned the post down, as he did a knighthood or a seat in the Lords. |
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