Cromer’s later writings codified a philosophy of bureaucratic rule.

Evidence

In the following years, Cromer reconciled himself to the “hybrid form of government”; in his letters he began to justify it and to expound the need for the government without name and precedent. At the end of his life, he laid down (in his essay on “The Government of Subject Races”) the main lines of what one may well call a philosophy of the bureaucrat. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 550

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘philosophy of the bureaucrat’ as a defined intellectual position, pointing to Cromer’s essay as its locus.