During the Victorian era (1837-1901) tabloids became full of a pseudo science called polygenesis. Polygenesis is where instead of having only two original ancestors like the bible teaches, there were multiple sets of ‘first parents’ through this the ‘scientists’ concluded some groups were better than others. The belief in polygenesis contradicted the bible which states there were only two, a man and a woman, and through them all of humanity came to exist. Jane is much more spiritual than christian, so she looks at foreigners the same way that victorian society looks at them. By that standard the victorians believed it was their responsibility to help these less refined beings. They then thought that since they were not as ‘perfect’ as they