• How far contemporary social sciences have survived this dark history is another matter of debate.Rudyard Kipling Western mans mission to “white mans burden”.
  • It is called "The White Mans Burden." With the permission of Senators I will read a stanza, and I beg Senators to listen to it, for it is well worth their attention.
  • The White Mans Burden. ... 4 Take up the White Man's burdenNo tawdry rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeperThe tale of common things.
  • 31 Go make them with your living, 32 And mark them with your dead ! 33 Take up the White Man's burden —. 34 And reap his old reward
  • In the first stanza of ‘The White Mans Burden,’ the speaker begins by demanding that the reader, or an intended listener, “Take up the White Mans Burden.”
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  • take up the white man's burden-- in patience to abide, to veil the threat of terror and check the show of pride; by open speech and simple, an hundred times...
  • Take up the White Man's burden-- / Send forth the best ye breed-- / Go bind your sons to exile / To serve your captives' need; / To wait in heavy harness, / On...
  • Kipling was born in British India. lines. Take up the White Mans burdenburden: heavy weight, a responsibility. Send forth the best ye breed—.
  • He wrote "The White Man's Burden" in response to the United States taking control of the Philippines, a former Spanish colony, in 1898.