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0040 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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should occasional violence be taken as conclusive
evidence of a radically bad status. Were the game
of interference played among populations less pli-
able than those making up the majorities in Central
Asia, it would certainly be found that the benefit of
mere regularity in a foreign-born government would
not be accepted as against native, though violent
and tyrannical rule. The truth of this proposition
has been abundantly shown in the fierce resistance
of Bokhara's neighbour state — Afghanistan — to
British or Russian domination. But the Turkestan
majorities are sheep-like people, accustomed ever to
be mastered by some hardier, wandering folk from
the far east plains of Mongolia or the nearer steppes
and mountain valleys wherein irrigation methods
are impossible, and hence where the struggle of man
for daily bread and comfortable shelter develops
those qualities which make conquerors of wanderers,
or more yielding rebels of those who plough the
stiff soil for an uncertain crop.
Not generally in the study of history's lessons
have we sufficiently emphasised the special charac-
teristics due to the unvarying fertility, the enervat-
ing facility, and the great vulnerability of irrigation
systems. Societies have been divided into nomadic,
agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial types.
The distinction that has not been clearly made and
studied in its very important results is that which
makes a separate class of the irrigating agriculturist
— safe against climatic risks; crowded in small
holdings; dependent on combined action for the
construction of irrigation works; the ready victim of
any violence which seizes some certain ditch. Con-