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0085 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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lers in the two Americas. Yes, it is true, the strong
shall possess the weak; to their own good, we say.
Then, when we shall be the relatively weak, our
wisdom should be that of submission. If out of
the long, death-like sleep of old age in the East (so
it seems to some of us) there shall now be born a
new youth, let it attend our senile steps, if so be
we are now going a breaking pace which shall lead
to premature decay. But that reversal of things,
if indeed the Fates shall ever decree it, must be
set off to a date so distant that wisdom refuses its
consideration, and only jest or idle fancy paints the
picture in.
Within the interesting future—say one hundred
and fifty years—any threat of a military movement
of the United East against Europe would result in
a United States of Europe and America—an invin-
cible, probably beneficent union. One might almost
wish for some high heat of war to produce a fusion
in which should be seared to death many childish
differences—childish, yet pregnant with strife and
sorrow. Let the weak become strong—'t will be
easier to establish a balance. Let the weak become
strong—'t will be harder to make markets by the
cannon's roar. Let the weak become strong—
't will be easier to stifle a national avarice when
its gratifications shall be made dangerous.
Taking into account the covetousness and the
kindness that are in us, the wisdom and the folly,
it appears clear that there can be no condition of
stable equilibrium until there be developed in the
great national units a condition of approximately
uniform strength—military strength, manifest or