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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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satisfaction of the ghoulish dogs whose bellies are
the tombs of Tibetan dead.
It is harrowing. Yet after all, death is for all;
the cutting off of even ten thousand shepherds at
an average of say fifteen years before disease and
age would claim them, is not a large sacrifice for
humanity to make in keeping an empire's peace.
But the sacrifice would not end with the death-
rattle in ten thousand throats. There would be,
yea, to-day there is, and for many morrows there
will be, bitterness in a million hearts. That is evil;
not measurable, but great. And there is, beyond
all else, a wounding of ideals all the world over—
unless it be very clear to the world that some
greater evil has been forefended, or some great
good established by the myriad rotting corpses,
and that reasonable inquiry found no other protec-
tion from the evil, no other instrument for the good
than in the killing of many innocent men. That,
indeed, is the crux of the matter. Given the possi-
bility of Russian desire to attack the British-Indian
establishment, we must question then the amount
of harm that might reach English interests if Tibet
had been left in her isolation.
Two lines of effort would be considered by the
Russians, if in any way Tibetan territory were to
be used in the game. The first would be by military
occupation, with the view of descending upon India
from Tibet; and the second would be by stirring
up, through intrigue, the Tibetans, in coalition
with the Nepalese or Bhutanese, to strive unaided
against the British power. To accomplish the first,
Russia must have forced or cajoled the Chinese
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