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0331 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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sent to teach the heathens Christianity, and then Christ-
ians are sent to mow them down with machine-guns!
So-called savages who, according to numerous travellers,
behave well until they are ill-treated, are taught good
conduct by the so-called civilised, who presently sub-
jugate them—who inculcate rectitude and then illustrate
it by seizing their lands.
" The policy is simple and uniform — Bibles first,
bomb-shells after. Such being the doings abroad, what
are the feelings at home? Honours, titles, emoluments
are showered on the aggressors. A traveller who makes
light of men's lives is regarded as a hero and fêted by
the upper classes; while the lower classes give an ovation
to a leader of fillibusters. 'British power,' 'British
pluck,' 'British interests,' are words on every tongue;
but of justice there is no speech, no thought.''

Viewing the eminence of the authority just
quoted, it may seem bold to endeavour a recast of
the philosophical setting in which historical critic-
ism should be placed. But Spencer's tone, in the
paragraph above, seems rather that of an angry
Isaiah than of a scholarly determinist. Let me
therefore endeavour to clothe the nakedness of his
condemnations—while averring that the program
outlined in the excerpt seems to have been closely
followed in British Tibetan events.
There is in the universe but one Will (or self-
existent law). It has expressed itself to us in the
hateful tempests of Nero's soul, not less than in
the ineffable happiness of accomplished sacrifice on
the cross; in the fury of Attila, not less than in the
wrapt ecstasy of Gautama under the Bo tree; in
the turning of this leaf by you, O law-governed