In 1877, a young man wrote a passionate treatise to his Oxford colleagues. “I maintain that we are the most beautiful race in the world and that the more we inhabit the world the better for the human race,” wrote Cecil Rhodes, then only 24 years old. “Imagine those parts which are now inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings ,” he reflected, “what a change there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence.” Like many other Britons of his time, Rhodes was a staunch imperialist quoted, his famous “Confession of Faith,” was an expression unbridled belief in British racial superiority. In this essay we will examine the practice of imperialism throughout modern history. Specifically, the philosophies and doctrines that justified its crimes. We will allow the life of Cecil Rhodes to serve as an entry point for this topic. This is ideal, firstly because Rhode's ideas and doctrines provide an illustration of imperial doctrine as a whole. Secondly, because Rhode's life is a microcosm of historical imperialism, as We will see. Rhode was not alone in holding this view of the superiority of the British race. Indeed, with the establishment of Darwin's theory of evolution, countless intellectuals were quick to establish evolutionary biology as the basis of European racial supremacy. Over the years, Rhodes' charismatic dogma would bring him to the center of the imperialist movement. It was a fitting place for him, as in many ways life in Rhodes was a demonstration of imperialism in general. On the one hand, Rhodes represented a class of wealthy European businessmen who had become obscenely wealthy through their shameless plundering of the colonized world. Throughout... half the paper... the five were theoretically the same. The source of their inequality was their lack of education, finances, or, as it was called at the time, their “barbarism.” There was an element of this in every imperial regime. Algerians were able to buy and sell land like Europeans under French rule. It was like this in India too. In cases where there was formal inequality, there was generally a paternal ideology that supported it. For example, the “civilizing” missions in Congo. Even though African workers were forced to work in harsh conditions, the ruling Belgian elite argued that forced labor was “the only means of giving them the incentive to work.” Thus, the slavery imposed on the native population was simply a “humanitarian” effort intended to help African workers “shed their natural indolence and improve their condition”.,