The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.

Not only is the West so successful economically, but it leads the world scientifically, and culturally.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

I always have tendency to form very strong local attachments, so I was very keen to find out about the school I was going to, its history, and the countryside. I was acquiring a kind of English character if you like, Englishness about things and my attitudes.