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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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upon mountain-desert, already won, and, eastward,
sweep horizons which still salute the throne of far
Pekin. Unless your mind be wholly given to con-
templation of things abstract and general, or to
things concrete and narrowly personal, you must
feel something of thrill when, after Taldyk's descent,
you stumble into the first Chinese station. The
simple Cossack officer, with whom we ate black
bread three days ago, was commissioned by a magic-
worshipping, devout Christian tyrant in St. Peters-
burg. This courteous yellow man, whose ragged
soldiers light the way with paper lanterns, lives by
the breath of an old woman who guesses at outside
things from Pekin's thick-shadowed imperial gar-
den. That barren ridge behind is the political
ridge-pole of Asia. On one side are the electric light
and the cherished rifle, on the other the fantastic
lantern and the neglected battle-axe. On which
side shall be found the greater number of units of
happiness per capita of human beings I do not
know. Three hundred years ago it would have
been easy to say on which side could be found the
greater light of human reason and civility and worth
of all kinds save that of savage strength. Where
shall be found fifty years hence the balance of value,
merely as measured by European standards, we may
not know. Playing prophet is but risky business
since Japan began using Christian devices and has
adopted our most popular paraphrase of the Sermon
on the Mount, in which "blessed" is changed to
"cursed," and the whole is spoken in sprightly tones
by field artillery, accents given by magazine rifles,
and the gathered fragments are legs and arms disjecta.
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