It's to celebrates British colonialism as a mission of civilisation that eventually would benefit the colonised natives and the thematically corresponds to Kipling's belief that the British Empire was the Englishman's <u> "Divine Burden to reign God's Empire on Earth"</u><u>.</u><u> </u>
The duty of white men to bring education and salvation to people around the world that he deemed uncivilized. Many people, including people of color and anti-imperialists, have called this concept racist.