Abstract
ON THE ROLL OF BUILDERS Of the second British Empire the name of James Stephen stands high. Although shy and hypersensitive, Stephen was one of the most brilliant men of his day. Entering the Colonial Office of 1813 as legal counselor, he was elevated to the strategic post of permanent undersecretary in 1836. For the next eleven years his influence on colonial policy was so apparent that he was abused by Charles Buller, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and many a pamphleteer with such epithets as Mr. Over-Secretary, Mr. Mother-Country, and King More than any other scholar,' Paul Knaplund has corrected this libelous picture, by proving that the spirit of reform in the British colonial system was due in large measure to Stephen. He has shown Stephen as a Christian humanitarian and a liberal who favored the reform of the colonial legal system, the promotion of self-government and freedom overseas, and the establishment of high standards in public administration and in business.'
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