大英帝国现在站在现代文明的顶峰，向世界上不幸的文化和种族传播其启蒙运动——无论是通过商业、圣经、枪支，还是三者的某种结合——是这个帝国的特殊负担。
(the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread its enlightenment-whether through commerce, the Bible, the gun, or some combination of all three-to the world's less fortunate cultures and races.)
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