Colonial development could only proceed at a pace set by local limits
Evidence
The mise en valeur of a new country like West Africa must, in effect, take place according to a geometric progression. Local conditions subject this progression to an unvarying law, which must be discovered, then integrally applied without overstepping it. Those who are too impatient will not, as they think, restore the economic and financial health of our country. They will be cruelly deceived at the expense of criminal waste. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 769
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Carde’s law of geometric progression is a conceptual framework for the limits of rapid colonial mise en valeur.