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0034 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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École Polytechnique men—both sons of prominent
railway officials. Their culture is wider and deeper
than that of young American or English engineers.
In observing a given thing they see more of its re-
lations with the rest of the universe than we ordi-
narily see.
You and I, O Anglo-Saxon spirit-companion,
shall find that our forty-year wisdom may learn
much from twenty-five-year French intuition, and
we shall learn to doubt the meaning of the word
"decadence" as applied to the ripest — but not
rottenest—people of our European world. A sug-
gestive thing it was to watch Anginieur and these
other temperate, complicated, critical, sensitive, in-
tellectual Frenchmen in their amused association
with the lusty, simple, strong, confident, physical
Russians. What strange secrets hath nature in the
mixing of clay to make men! Some sure bond there
undoubtedly is between chemistry and psychology,
but alas! the formula of that bond is the Great
Secret which man, I think, shall never know. Thus
it was that I could but ruminate and wonder, while
listening for hours to the explosive French jargon of
a young Russian officer, whose hairy breast heaved,
whose bold, kind eyes glistened, whose brow ran
wet while he drank at us, jested with us, rattled all
the cups of the dining-car, and explained by his sole
personality the measureless strength of his people.
A mere commentary on this personality seemed the
conquered deserts through whose heats we travelled,
—whose children we saw quietly gathered at the
stations which had been battle-fields whereon the
Cossack Christ overcame the Turcoman Mahomet.