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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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potential. Now, in respect to military strength,
ignorance of physical science is weakness. If the
Chinese, possessing organisation, intelligence, expe-
rience, patience, and character, but lacking science,
should be put under European rule, it could be only
temporary — they would thus, perforce, get science
and be strong. They will enter the syndicate of
those who rule the weak. And these, the weak, we
shall ever have among us because of certain ineradi-
cable climatic race-differences which will always
cause certain races to be subject to their neighbours
of sterner mould. The great moral and intellectual
qualities which have made the Chinese Emperor to
be the "Elder Brother" to all Eastern Asia suffi-
ciently mark the potentialities of this powerful
people. Until these larger movements, shall have
taken place it is profitable to the occasional Western
traveller to study the dignity, the poise, the civil-
isation of such a man as the Taotai of Kashgar.
To this worthy official we paid due visit, interpre-
tation being done by Colonel Miles's cultivated
moonshee, a Mohammedan gentleman from Lahore,
who tabulated his ancestry through the Prophet to
Adam's self. Conversation ran in well-worn ruts—
health, age, number of children, nativity,—present
objective. When I pointedly asked that we might
have letters of safe-conduct to Khotan and Polu,
the old gentleman simply did n't answer, and soon
began sipping his tea, a decorous signal that the in-
terview was closed. We felt "in our bones" that
the cautious Mandarin wanted to hear from M.
Petrovsky before committing himself. We were, in
a measure, under Colonel Miles's wing, yet, as we
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