If we examine the various theories of imperialism that have been propounded we find that ... they all affirm a condemnatory axiom ... that imperialism is evil, that it is the evil behavior of rapacious capitalists or atavistic warriors, or perhaps more generally, an evil that lurks in all human beings; presumably too, as historic evil, it carries ineluctably the fatality of its own self-punishment ... [but] we must clearly distinguish between the two varieties of imperialism that have alternated and competed in the world's history -- the progressive and the regressive.
