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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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thin layer of highly febrile material, overtopping a
very thick layer of an inert mass. But however
variant may be the progress in the Empire's wide
stretch, I see nothing to suggest destruction of the
essential unity of that Empire, or any cataclysmic
change in its form.
The local irritations in Finland, Poland, and the
Caucasus, however justifiable they may be, cannot
go to the length of establishing independent gov-
ernments in an age which demands consolidation.
Geographic and ethnical resemblances will tend to
hold together all the vast tract from Moscow to
Vladivostok—save in the Turkestan region—which
we are now traversing. Here, too, there is basis for
unity of empire—since all these regions must be
administered by the superior race, whose members
will never be considerable in these territories.
They are a common heritage to the Russian people.
When an inheritance is not easily divisible it be-
comes a force tending to conserve unity or union
among its owners. While thus of common interest,
yet they give political might chiefly to the new
Russia in Siberia. The best administrators for
Turkestan—certainly the majority of the forceful
ones whom I met, are men who knew not St. Peters-
burg. The case is analogous to that which would
have arisen had not Mexico redeemed herself within
the last twenty years. Under pressure from our
Western States the Southern territory would have
been annexed, and, not being ripe for amalgama-
tion to our forms, would have been ruled by men
from Iowa, Colorado, California.
The man from Denver and the man from Omsk
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