French republicanism held ethnic particularism would birth individual liberty

Evidence

Additionally, by allowing each ethnic group to evolve within its own particular mentality, by preserving as much as possible the particularism of the tribe, we are furthering the birth of individual effort within each group, and thus liberating the entire group from the religious or political influence of the neighboring group. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 392

Categorization

• XREF: Explicates the core doctrine underlying the reader’s topic: the republican civilizing claim that tribe-level ‘evolution’ within one’s own tradition leads to individual freedom.