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0098 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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days. But the good Father's French seemed to
have taken on no rust in Central Asia, hence he and
I were able to dispute our radically divergent views
on nearly all abstract topics, while in philology his
superior wisdom changed discussion into authorita-
tive declaration.

In such days and in such ways it is learned how
slight are the material requirements for satisfactory
existence in either one of two planes—that of the
lazy, dirty, sensuous, or that of contemplation.
We, contemplative, were happy in learning new
finite facts about a part of our earth, and in specu-
lations concerning things infinite, unknowable; and,
being few, we were free from pose, almost free from
vanity. The daily march across the heated desert,
the nightly shake-down in *langar* (empty road-
house) or in the comfortable mud home of some
village notable, kept body and mind in good me-
chanical condition and produced a sense of solidarity
with stars and sand and trees and men. Without
woman, art, or ambition—those chief elements of
general life—value in living may yet be found, for
a time at least, merely in regulated exercise of body
and mind.

As for the values given by the lazy, dirty, and
sensuous life, they were abundantly, incontestably
in evidence everywhere about us. Leprosy may
claim its fiftieth, goitre its fifth, unseen disease its
third, dirt its four-fifths, political tyranny its nine-
tenths, yet let me fill the belly, destroy ambition,
and pour sunshine over all, and I shall guarantee
something that a jury of wise men must call happi-
ness—though not the variety which grows in New