IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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8 BOGLE'S MISSION, 1774
but also by taking infinite pains over long periods
of time to promote ordinary neighbourly intercourse
with those on the other side. Both qualities are
necessary. Spasmodic action unaccompanied by steady,
continuous efforts at conciliation produces no less bad
results than does plodding conciliation never accompanied
by action. It was because Warren Hastings possessed
this capacity for instantly seizing an opportunity, because
he could and would without hesitation or fear use severity
where severity alone would secure enduring harmony,
but would yet persistently and with infinite tact, sagacity,
and real good-heartedness work for humane and neigh-
bourly relationship with adjoining peoples, that he must
be considered the greatest of all the great Governors-
General of India.
But to be successful a policy must be embodied in a
fitting personality. And to appreciate Warren Hastings'
Tibetan policy we must know something of the agent he
chose to carry it into effect. What was the character of
the man who was to lead the first Mission ever sent to
Tibet ? We learn from Markham that he was born in
1746, and had at first been brought up in a business office;
but on proceeding to India had been given a post in the
Revenue Department. His letters to his father and sisters
show him to have been a man of the strongest home feel-
ings, and his conversations with the Tibetans indicate that
he was a man of high honour and strict rectitude. Warren
Hastings himself not only had a high opinion of his abilities
and official aptitude, but also entertained for him a warm
personal friendship.
The youth of Warren Hastings' agent is the first point
to note : he was only twenty-eight. Nowadays we use
men who are much too old. It is when men are young,
when they are still crammed full of energy, when their
faculties are alert, that they are most useful and effective.
I often doubt whether the experience of maturer age
possesses all the advantages which are commonly attri-
buted to it, and whether young men act more rashly
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