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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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It will take time to win them. It has taken a
century of encroachment to fill their hearts with fear
of you. But you know that there is nothing, save
fear of you, to cause them to give a second thought
to Russia, far away across the dreadful deserts.
*Then remove the fear of you in Tibetan hearts, and
you thus remove the fear of Russia in yours.* It is
possible that this should be done. The whole his-
tory and delineation of the people suggest it. Con-
sider their weakness and your strength. If ever
they have listened to the Buriat's words of sugges-
tion, if ever he suggested anything more than the
welfare of his own community as hanging upon the
favour of the Czar, then it could be only because
you have bred fear instead of love. These people
received you kindly in the past; they have opened
their doors to those who preach your faith; and
they have seen a wall of fire approach them. Try
to assure them that the flame will not again tongue
the peaks of their mountains. Try to take into
your dealings with this poor people the warmth, the
hospitality, the friendship, the quick charity which
your splendid officers have shown to me, a helpless
stranger, in many forsaken spots of the traveller's
world. And as to that unselfish interest in the de-
velopment of a people which, after all, does exist in
your hearts, let it be satisfied by reflecting that the
vast changes now making in China must reach Tibet,
even if you let it alone. Slow indeed would be the
process; with less of heartburn and despair; less
loss of faith in something great and good; less vio-
lence done to honesty in your own breasts; less
strain upon the peace of nations; less worship of
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