to the person sitting in darkness造句

• After the publication of " To the Person Sitting in Darkness " in " The North American Review " for February 1901, as the opening article, there was a huge controversy.
• According to Susan Harris :  To the Person Sitting in Darkness,  which Mark Twain published in the " North American Review " in 1901, attacks Western imperialism as it was manifesting itself in South Africa, China, Cuba, and the Philippines.
• Twain's response to hearing of Ament's methods was published in the " North American Review " in February 1901 : " To the Person Sitting in Darkness ", and deals with examples of imperialism in China, South Africa, and with the U . S . occupation of the Philippines.
• Although imperialist beliefs were common currency in the culture of that time, there were opponents to Kipling's poetic misrepresentation of imperial conquest and colonisation, notably Mark Twain ( " To the Person Sitting in Darkness ", 1901 ) and William James, for them " The White Man's Burden " was plain of manner, meaning, and intent.
• He denounced the national policies in Africa, China, and the Philippines, and showed by the reports and by the private letters of soldiers home, how cruel and barbarous and fiendish had been the warfare made by those whose avowed purpose was to carry the blessed light of civilization and Gospel  to the benighted native  how in very truth these priceless blessings had been handed on the point of a bayonet to the  Person Sitting in Darkness .  Mark Twain never wrote anything more scorching, more penetrating in its sarcasm, more fearful in its revelation of injustice and hypocrisy, than his article  To the Person Sitting in Darkness .  He put aquafortis on all the raw places, and when it was finished he himself doubted the wisdom of printing it.