Several times Cecil espoused scientifically racist sentiments, saying that he believed the Englishman was the greatest human specimen in the world and that his rule would be a benefit to all. Cecil was a believer in the glory of the British Empire and saw it as his god given task to expand the empire, not only for the benefit of the Empire itself, but also for all the peoples whom she would conquer. He saw Empire as a platform to advance the human race, in other words he whole heartedly believed Imperialism to be good for all. A naïve cynic might try to dismiss the plethora of quotes from Cecil simply as a crude justification for the practices which he employed to his great economic advantage, but this seems unlikely given that he supported scientific racism in his youth, long before he stood to gain economically from such sentiments. Cecil became vastly wealthy by the labors of African miners who extracted diamonds and gold from the Cape Colony. Rhodes did not sit by, idly rich, no, he entered the Cape Colony parliament, eventually becoming the prime minister of the colony. It was under his rule that he launched the Anglo-Boer war, expanding the territories of the empire. He formed the British South Africa Company which received a royal charter and conquered the territory which became British Rhodesia. Cecil expended vast amounts of political and financial capital to expand Empire. Rhodes has been labeled a supremacist (quite fairly) and an architect of Apartheid (also fairly). While these terms would have been unfamiliar to Cecil himself, he would have been proud to have accepted them. He saw the indigenous inhabitants of Africa as truly …show more content…
His most enduring legacy, the Rhodes Scholarship, reflects this sentiment in that the money from his estate is being used to mold English speakers from other parts of the empire (a broader sense of empire here) into vessels of British value. His goal was to create an elite class of American philosopher-kings who would eventually reunite Britain and America, ensuring Anglo-Saxon dominance and perpetual peace (he also believed Germany would share in world domination and allowed English speaking German students to have their heads crammed with Oxford ideals as a result of his