King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule

Twain, Mark · 1910

“Leopold II is the absolute Master of the whole of the in- ternal and external activity of the Independent State of the Congo. The organization of justice, the army, the industrial and commercial regimes are established freely by himself. He would say, and with greater accuracy than did Louis XIV., ‘The State, it is I.’” _Prof. F. Cattier, Brussels University._ “Let us repeat after so many others what has become a platitude, the success of the African work is the work of a sole directing will, without being hampered by …

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