国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

> > > >
カラー New!IIIFカラー高解像度 白黒高解像度 PDF   日本語 English
0373 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / 373 ページ(カラー画像)

New!引用情報

doi: 10.20676/00000231
引用形式選択: Chicago | APA | Harvard | IEEE

OCR読み取り結果

then our coursers may be stopped, but not other-
wise.
Whether or not complications in Western China
will be viewed as seriously by others as by me, it yet
may be taken for granted that the rape of Tibet will
not be forgotten by the statesmen of interested
nations when they gravely begin that general read-
justment which must follow the close of the Russo-
Japanese war. No incident as large as that just
precipitated by Lord Curzon's fears and Colonel
Younghusband's ambition can stand alone in the
world's politics of to-day. It is probable that even
if the *main mise* upon Tibet be permitted to be per-
manent, Great Britain will somewhere else be re-
quired to yield a *quid pro quo* out of proportion to
the value gained in Tibet. I say out of proportion
because I consider that value as *nil* or negative, and
I mean the value to the average inhabitant of Great
Britain and also to the average inhabitant of India.
If Great Britian were a cooped-in nation, if her
energetic sons found no open spaces in the world for
stretching their legs and sharpening their wits, then
perhaps the opportunity for even the few whom
Tibet could support would be of general benefit.
But the administration of present holdings by Gov-
ernment, and the maintenance of a sharp commercial
contest throughout the world,—these two national
activities create demands for men, for brains, which
are not more than met. There is no surplus. Such
work as England has so largely in hand requires
high-grade men. The ordinary white man is not
the typical sahib, yet in many corners of her sub-
ject-world, it is only the *sahib quality* in her