The Fabians also inherited Mill's scepticism about the universalist belief that political institutions suitable for England or France are 'the only fit form of government for Bedouins and Malays'. In 1901, Shaw noted that the British Empire was no longer 'a Commonwealth of white men and baptised Christians', and argued against extending democratic institutions to subjects who were 'black, brown, or yellow', and whose creed was 'Mahometan, Buddhist or Hindu'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 245