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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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into China. The older faith there is peaceful, toler-
ant; the younger faith, like its rival in Europe, is
virile, militant, intolerant; whence great wars in
China proper, and revolt here in Turkestan, where
bloody deeds were being enacted in the self-same
epoch with Gettysburg and the Wilderness. The
forty years that have passed since those great days
seem to have worked out, in Western China, a status
for the Mussulman fairly satisfactory to him and to
his neighbour. Doubtless this might also be said
of the Turki Mussulman (for his subjection to China
is of long date), but that here the situation is again
made complex by the "Russian advance." The
importance and the sensitiveness of affairs in Kash-
garia, as they are viewed in Pekin, seem clearly
manifested by the fact that China has built and
maintains a telegraph line from Pekin to Kashgar—
more than two thousand miles. We were aston-
ished to learn this, more astonished on reflecting
that this work, quite stupendous for China, had
been completed without blowing of trumpets—in-
deed, so quietly that many well-informed Europeans
have never given the matter a thought. It seemed
to me most significant as to the unheralded develop-
ment of material strength which may go on in China
when her own scientifically educated people, or the
headlong Japanese, shall be running in multitudes
to and fro in the land.
Invention's great miracles—telegraphy, telephony
—are thus made an offering by America, the young-
est to China, the oldest among great nations.
Over this desert-spanning line, and from its terminus
at Pekin, through the great submarine lines, the
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