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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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. iv.] THE FORCE OF RIVALRY. 91
In this view we must give up our House of
Commons ideas on preserving the integrity of
China. We gave them up in practice, almost
as soon as the Resolution of last February was
passed, and under the pressure of circumstances
we annexed Wei-hai-wei and Mir's Bay. We
must, instead, remember that there are greater
forces than our individual wills which rule the
world, and that however fixedly we may make
up our minds to do one thing, we are often
driven by those forces to do precisely the
opposite. From the beginning of the history
of mankind there has been a force engendered
by rivalry and competition, first impelling bar-
barous man to clear out the beast of the field
from the best parts of the earth, then, driving
on the more advanced to subdue the barbarous,
and now urging the civilised either to oust or
control the uncivilised.
That force it is which has caused the progress
of the world, which has placed the strong above
the weak, the good above the bad, which
compelled a trading company, much against its
own will, to take the whole of India, to our
ultimate advantage and the good of the world,
and which is driving us and other European
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