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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
DISORDER COMPELS INTERVENTION 437
there. It was the anticipation of disorder which Russian
influence might cause which drew us into 'T'ibet in 1904.
It is a similar anticipation of the disorder which Chinese
action may bring about that is causing even the pacific
Lord Morley to sanction the assembly of troops on the
Tibet frontier in 1910. In none of these cases have we
I ever really wanted to intervene. We have intended, and
we have publicly and solemnly declared our intention, not
to intervene, or, if we have to intervene, to withdraw
immediately. But yet the impulse comes. Somehow we
have to intervene ; somehow we have to stay. And not
only we find this, but other great nations find the same.
Practical statesmen find nothing so disturbing to their
wishes and intentions as contact with a weak, unorderly
people. They try for years to disregard their existence,
but in the end, from one cause or another, they find they
have to intervene to establish order and set up regular
relations—they are, in fact, driven to establish eventual
harmony, even if it may be by the use of force at the
moment.
Yet all the time they feel that there is a delicate mean
to be observed in these matters. If they think only of
order and nothing of individualization they will find those
among whom they are preserving order impelled against
them. This balancing of order and freedom, of associa-
tion and individualization, is always the difficult task. It
is our trouble now in India, though it may be parenthetic-
ally noted that in isolated and secluded Tibet there is far
less freedom for the individual than in Bengal under our
alien rule, and that there is less freedom in a native State
than in a British province in India, for we try in India
as in Egypt to give the individual all the play we can
within the limits of order.
That there is a strange force driving us on, and that
it is impelling us in the direction of freedom with union,
or of the one through the other, is, then, a reasonable
assumption to make. And if this is so, we are not merely
drifting along on a mere tendency—we are being driven
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