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Citation Information
194 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. VIII.
characteristic of running to extremes. They
are the essence of imperturbable mediocrity.
They live in a land where in the places in
which anything at all can be grown the
necessaries of life can be produced easily and
plentifully. Their mountain barriers shield
them from severe outside competition, and they
lead a careless, easy, apathetic existence.
Nothing disturbs them. Revolutions have
occurred, but they have mostly been carried
out by foreigners. One set of rulers has
suddenly replaced another set, but the rulers in
both instances have nearly all been foreigners.
Yakub Beg was a foreigner, and most of the
officials under him were foreigners, so that
even when their hereditary rulers the Chinese
—were driven out for a time, the people of
Chinese Turkestan did not govern themselves.
On the contrary, in all these changes, they
appear to have looked on with indifference.
Such a people are, as might naturally be in-
ferred, not a fighting race. They are a race of
cultivators and small shopkeepers, and nothing
more, and nothing would make them anything
more. It is their destiny, shut away here from
the rest of the world, to lead a dull, spiritless,
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