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0382 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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great god "Government" like a loyal Briton, not dar-
ing to say of it, "*Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ?*"¹

Except that confession and restitution are not yet
among the phenomena of national ethics, no one, I
fancy, would find fault with the speech of peace-
making which I had ventured to put into the mouth
of the British Government. Exceptional as it is, I
feel sure that, if uttered in sincerity, it would be
followed by the happy results which most of us have
experienced, now and then, in our private lives.
Surely the *best relation*, selfishly considered at Cal-
cutta, and *assuming Tibet to be a point of possible Rus-
sian intrigue*, would be that of friendship. But the
course of past events has made it impossible that the
Tibetan should not entertain fear rather than love of
the British. Little has been done to dissipate, much
to encourage that fear. Even in the acts which were
extraneous to Tibetan relations, as in China, and
which had no conscious reference to them, this had
unfortunately been true. All the more reason for
special effort here. How shall friendship be shown,
you ask, to a people who refuse our modest "com-
mercial missions"? Let them alone, or slowly gain
their good-will through the Ladakis and Kashmiris
who have access to them and who afford you a far
more useful intermediation than Russia possesses.