At dinner one night, at a large university center, there was a discussion of colonialism and what it had brought by way of blessings to the country. A very beautiful young Indian woman, an instructor in a nearby college, whispered to me, “Dr. Thurman, do you know why the sun never sets on the British Empire?” “No,” I replied. “I will tell you,” she said. “God cannot trust the Englishman in the dark.”
