In Darkest England, William Booth

• Mr. Stanley's "Darkest Africa"
• If there is a darkest Africa, why not a darkest England?
• Civilization breeds its own barbarians, does it not breed its own pygmies?
• Can we find a parallel at our own doors?
• Analogy of Arab ivory raiders who traffic the denizens of the forest glades, what are they but the exploiters who flourish on the weakness of our poor?
• To many the world is a slum
• Streets of London, would tell of tragedies as awful, of ruin as complete, of ravishment as horrible, as if we were in Central Africa
• The ghastly devastation is only covered by the artificialities and hypocrisies of modern civilization
• A negress in the equatorial forest is not so much worse than an orphan girl in our christian capital, who is confronted by two options starve, or sin
• Women are not the only victims, the firms that defraud a workman of his pay and who rob the widow and orphan are also to blame
• Darkest England, like Darkest Africa, also reeks with Malaria
• The foul and putrid breath of the slums is almost as poisonous as an African Swamp
• Just as in Darkest Africa, the evil and misery comes from the superior race, much of the misery also arises from our own habits
• Drunkenness and all manners of uncleanness
• A population sodden with drink, stepped in vice, eaten up by every social and physical malady, these are the "denizens" of Darkest England
• The Grimmest social problems should be sternly faced, not with profitless emotion, but with a view to its solution