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0334 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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his outreachings toward Tibet as being merely part
of the luxurious growth of a marvellously rich
mind, fertilised by ambition, heated by the sun of
success. That something great might be found
among the Himalayan summits, was enough to set
his imagination aflame, and in his strong nature,
action followed close the heels of fancy. We may
safely vault from his day almost a hundred years of
Indian history, before finding events which could
seriously fix responsible minds upon the Tibetan
problem. Within those years, and since France
withdrew from the fields where her genius had
blazed the way for England's power, that power
had been extended over three classes of territories.
First are the lowlands—wide-spreading, populous,
easily subdued, rich (relatively) in commercial op-
portunity and in state-revenue payment. Here
the motive for conquests is not far to seek; they
were made by a commercial company. Next come
the first tier of mountain states, difficult to conquer,
more expensive to administer (relatively) and not in
themselves rich in returns of any kind, save military
glory in the first days of blood. They were dis-
turbers of the border peace, and it seemed cheaper
to subdue and rule them, than to forefend at the
frontier. Last come the outpost countries of the
Himalayan region, valueless as commercial fields,
not dangerous to their equally valiant and better
organised neighbours of the first tier of mountain
states. The sole motive for their conquest lies in
the fear of Russia, the power which, in Hastings's
day, lay so far to the north that it was not within
the range of "practical politics."