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0036 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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THE PULSE OF ASIA

INTRODUCTION

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CENTRAL ASIA

In the progress of human knowledge the marked ad-
vances in each science have been made under the stimulus
of a great fundamental principle. Astronomy could pro-
ceed but little beyond astrology until Newton discovered
the law of gravitation; physics remained empirical until the
conservation of energy was recognized; chemistry was
merely alchemy until its pioneers worked out the unfail-
ing law of the replacement of atom by atom; and geology
would still be miner's lore, if scientists had not seen that in
the course of ages the earth as we know it has been slowly
evolved by processes identical with those still in action.
So, too, in the biological sciences, botany, zoölogy, and phy-
siology, all was confusion until Darwin touched the key of
evolution and a vast number of apparently unrelated facts
fell into their appointed places, and the way was open
for the wonderful advances of the last half century.

The anthropological sciences are also bound together
by the unifying principle of evolution. Geography, an-
thropology, history, and sociology form an anthropological
group possessing a unity as great as that of the biological
sciences, although this has been perceived only within a few
years. The average man thinks of geography, the oldest of
all the sciences, as a schoolboy study of maps and of em-
pirical descriptions of places and people. He forgets that