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0328 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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CHASTENING OF HERBERT SPENCER — BRITISH
POLICY — CONTEST FOR A BARE BONE —
PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION

HERBERT SPENCER (Principles of Sociology,
p. 584; D. A. & Co., 1897) delivers himself,
rather intemperately, I think, as follows:

"If, in our days, the name 'birds of prey and of pass-
age,' which Burke gave to the English in India at the
time of Warren Hasting's trial, when auditors wept at
the account of the cruelties committed, is not applicable
as it was then; yet the policy of unscrupulous aggran-
disement continues. As remarked by an Indian officer,
Deputy Surgeon-General Paske, all our conquests and
annexations are made from base and selfish motives
alone. Major Raverty, of the Bombay army, condemns
'the rage shown of late years for seizing what does not
and never did belong to us, because the people happen
to be weak and very poorly armed, while we are strong
and provided with the most excellent weapons.' Resist-
ance to an intruding sportsman or a bullying explorer,
or disobedience to a resident, or even refusal to furnish
transport-coolies, serves as sufficient excuse for attack,
conquest, and annexation. Everywhere the usual suc-
cession runs thus: Missionaries, envoys to native rulers,
concessions made by them, quarrels with them, invasions
of them, appropriations of their territory. First men are
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