Frederick Lugard justifies Britain's actions of imperialism by saying that?

Frederick Lugard justified Britain's actions of imperialism by saying that Christianity needed to be spread and that their needed to be a halt of some "barbaric" rituals the countries Britain had ruled over were maintaining. He also thought that missionaries, local chiefs and local peoples needed to be protected from each other and foreign powers and imperialism was the savior for this. He also thought Britain needed to colonize before the other European superpowers.