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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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trast him with his brother who lives by the grace of
uncertain rains; forced to a prevision which makes
the lean year borrow from the fat; able to live wide
away from his neighbour, developing thereby an
independent individualism which may ripen into
civil order and liberty; each farmer whose land has
its own water-supply capable of making some mili-
tary resistance.
There is not space in these pages to develop an un-
familiar principle which has its demonstrations and
applications in the foundation and growth of almost
all human history. We must ask a large exercise
of inferential reasoning, based upon the scant sug-
gestions which have been outlined, or a large faith
on the part of those whose tastes refuse to drudge
the details out of which generalisations are made.
To leave this subject, without leaving the country
through which our journey now takes us, is hard
indeed; yet it is a duty which one owes to the
general reader, who, according to all sound morality,
should not be dragooned into being a specialist. Let
it go at this—the dense, settled populations of culti-
vators and small tradesmen in all the great artificial
oases of Turkestan (Russian and Chinese) are like
so many fat sheep when viewed by predatory wolves
such as you and I, or such as the fierce mountain
tribes or hardy nomads. Down any bazaar in Bo-
khara, Samarcand, Andijan, Kashgar, Yarkand,
Khotan, you and I, each armed with but a shillalah,
might victoriously drive the herded, happy people,
provided always that there chanced not to be within
the herd some Kirghiz, mountain Afghan, or no-
mad Turcoman. What you and I can do others
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