
In response to the growing demand for university teachers following the founding of new institutions throughout England and Wales, as well as in the British colonies and the United States, the pupils of many of the first generation British Idealists filled these positions and became the vehicles through which Idealism colonized Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, and the United States. Despite these reservations, others have maintained that there is evidence that his writings as well as his personal influence had a quite definite impact in preparing the basic political and ethical groundwork for the twentieth-century welfare state in Britain.