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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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NECESSITY FOR INTERCOURSE 417
inane folly and wastefulness of human life and good
money. This view proceeds, I am convinced, from the
quite intelligible lack of appreciation by those in England
of the actual conditions prevailing on the spot. For the
men who act on the confines of the Empire in, this
supposedly evil way are, after all, kith and kin with
themselves. They were born and bred in England, and
are probably not more naturally wicked than an ordinary
Member of Parliament.
Now, I have shown that, however remote Tibet is
from England, it is not remote from India, but, on the
contrary, adjoins and marches with India for 1,000 miles.
And if Russia, whose border nowhere comes within hun-
dreds of miles, can yet take such a practical interest in
the country as to protest time after time at each little
move we make in relation to the Tibetans, surely there is
some probability that we also have a necessity for interest-
ing ourselves in it ? If the Russians as well as ourselves
take practical interest in Tibet, and feel it necessary to
have some fairly sharp diplomatic correspondence about
it, the probability is that any action we take is not merely
inspired by inquisitiveness, idle curiosity, or love of
adventure, but that animating this interest must be some
real practical necessity.
What that necessity is must, I think, be evident to
those who have read the previous pages. Though it is
the fact that Tibet is divided from India by the lofty
Himalayas, it is also the fact that there is connection and
intercourse between the inhabitants of the two countries.
Tibet is not isolated like an oceanic island. The inhabi-
tants of India and the inhabitants of Tibet have always
had relation and intercourse with one another. And it is
the necessity for regularizing and harmonizing the inter-
course, and for putting it on a business-like footing, that
has been the cause of our interest in the country.
Let me bring the point a little nearer home. Sup-
posing there were in the far Highlands of Scotland a
people who had drawn their religion from England, who
always looked with veneration upon and made pilgrim-
ages to the sacred cities of Canterbury and York ; who
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