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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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is paying handsomely enough for their service by
permitting large patrimonies to descend from gen-
eration to generation, thus giving to the inheritors
a very substantial support, against which it draws
a moderate return of public service. Because *all*
inheritors of estates do not make such return, the
implied compact is somewhat obscured to the in-
telligence of some observers. The true principles
stand out more clearly in the actual relations of
the royal family, and the theoretical relations of
the nobility, toward the State. In so far as the in-
heritance of great fortune, *without public service*, is
continued, there begin now to appear adjustments
which express the public conscience on the subject.
These are obvious in England. They were loud as
the thunder, vivid and fatal as the lightning, about
a century ago, in France.
This excursive reflection upon the lordly states of
our Western world may seem to be an unwarranted
going-away from our text, which is just now the
poor mountain state of the snow-world. But the
comparison is meant to suggest something which I
consider more important at my hands than the
piling up of detailed description of Tibetan custom.
Other travellers have had much larger opportunity
than I to obtain such facts, and, in all their mani-
fold suggestiveness to various special students, they
have been admirably set forth in works from which,
if such full presentation were my task, I should
be forced to bountifully copy. But it has seemed
to me a better use of my small experience and my
reading to set forth only the larger features of
Tibetan life; to seek that which is common to us all,
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