How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
[P]erhaps the white men of the past, indeed of any past, would have been in better understanding and sympathy with the coloured races than we, of our Industrial Age, shall ever be. When the first steam engine was constructed, the roads of the races of the world parted, and we have never found one another since. (3.7.7)
The Other looks to the Baroness' eyes like a remnant from the past. She imagines that perhaps the Natives of Africa have something to do with white people from the past, but she recognizes the deep divide between industrialized Europe and Africa.