Early Victorian colonial thinkers were influenced by Carlyle without preaching explicit racism.

Evidence

Among the men who influenced the colonial movement from the middle of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of actual imperialism at its end, not one has escaped the influence of Carlyle, but not one can be accused of preaching outspoken racism. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 477

Categorization

• XREF: Useful for tracking the genealogy from benign national feeling to full racism — supports the reader’s scaffolding on how race-thinking precedes racism as doctrine.