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0017 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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military societies, but also from agricultural societies
of the kind familiar to us in Europe and America.
Such a view of the matter, when properly worked
out in detail of proof and conclusion, seems to me
to contain the key to certain historical problems of
the first importance. In the following pages it has
not been possible to do much more than to state the
theme; I hope to give it full treatment at a later
date. Meanwhile, I shall be gratified if the interest
of some inquiring and critical minds should be
awakened by the suggestions now presented.
In Western and Eastern Turkestan, respectively,
the traveller may observe, and compare, Russian
and Chinese colonial administration. Most inter-
esting are the indications thus given of the charac-
teristics of two peoples now challenging the world's
closest attention. Incidentally, one is of course
drawn to consider the general relation of Europe to
Asia. I trust that if any of my readers have been
uneasy as to the Yellow Peril, these pages may
quiet some fears and awaken some charities.
The recent British attack upon Tibet is of much
more moment, I believe, than would be inferred
from the isolated situation and relative weakness of
the Tibetan people. Although at this writing the
withdrawal of all British representation from Tibet
may seem to leave matters almost in statu quo ante,
it can scarcely be presumed that so considerable an
effort will be permanently left without result. The
whole affair seems to have been largely due to one
man—the late Viceroy, Lord Curzon. London in-
fluences seem never to have gone heartily into this
lamentable excursion, and the treaty dictated by