“We must strive, and we must win.’ Them bairns are taught their destiny is to rule the world. Look at the magnificent buildings we have here. Or d’ya remember the dubar to celebrate Queen Victoria as Empress of India-not that she came for it, mind. It works wonders in cowing the natives. But it only works because those ICS types, to a man, believe they’re doing good. They’re civilizing the world.’
Digby is taken aback at her breathless anger against the mission of the British Empire.
‘But it’s their land, Digby, and we take and take us. We take tea, rubber, take their looms so they must buy our cotton at ten times the cost…”
-The Covenant Of Water
Photographer: Daniel Jackson
