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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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heart of Asia may be put in simultaneous pulse
with the heart of America.
It is believed by some that when Asia shall have
eaten of the fruit of the tree of modern knowledge,
there shall arise a Yellow Peril, threatening the
peace of the Caucasian world. That some dis-
turbance of the present balance of things may be
produced seems indeed not unlikely. But shall In-
dustry be affrighted at the prospect of the birth of
more coats, chairs, ploughs, and loaves in a world
which ceases not to find that the appetites of men
(white, black, and yellow) grow with feeding? And
if we are really to be overwhelmed, is there not tariff
and non-intercourse policy to keep us poor? Shall
Morality be affrighted when mothers, all the world
over, shall hear, each the other's common cry of
pain and common speech of love? When Charity in
one clime shall hear and answer the prayer of suffer-
ing in every other? When Honour shall find a mir-
ror, now held up in East and now in West, its
lineaments everywhere the same? Shall Letters be
affrighted when through the magic of the printing-
press the rich stores of temple and of monastery
shall be spread broadcast to feed and inspire thou-
sands of hungry minds? Shall Religion grow pale?
Nay, whoever hath the truth, let him rejoice, for
the way shall be open to the preacher as it never
was in all our dream-haunted past! It remains
that these yellow men, become gods even as we are,
shall perhaps desire to possess us as we now possess
others. They may enviously study our accom-
plished facts in India, Egypt, Manila, Algiers.
They may dig up the history of the foretime dwel-
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