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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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every age, in every religion, have had clearer, higher
vision. There was, therefore, no generally recog-
nised principle in the new faith which could ever
make war upon the gross fetichism of the ignorant
tribes who were so far from all the world's centres of
thought. Yet even a closer touch at that time would
not have done much to expurgate from their minds
those childish and dreadful fancies which civilisation
has not yet entirely driven from Paris or New York.
While palmists, clairvoyants, and sellers of images
may flourish in our capitals; while Friday bears a
shady reputation, and dinners of thirteen are much
less frequent than those of eleven and of fifteen, just
so long may we feel sure that on the far Tibetan
plateau we have found a long-lost brother with
whom, hand in hand, we wend a painful way across
the glooms of time.
"And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.
Is 't night's predominance or the day's shame,
That darkness does the face of earth entomb,
When living light should kiss it?"
We, however, seem to be in the thinning edge of
the black, witch-haunted forest, while our Tibetan
brother is still in its darkest centre. Let us learn,
by translation from M. Grenard's vivid pages, what
we were, what the Tibetans are, by virtue of de-
veloping such ideas as those that damn the day
Friday and the number thirteen.
"Of Buddha, who established as principle the abnega-
tion of worldly vanities, who set forth as aim the annihila-
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