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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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fencing, the chances are very much in favour of his being
worsted. It is not so in every case, for there are, of course,
Europeans just as nimble-minded and subtle as Asiatics ; but,
in the overwhelming majority of cases, the sharp-witted Asiatic
wins. On the other hand, where real influence has been gained
by the European over Asiatics, it has been due to his straight-
ness and strength of moral character, and not to any original
intellectual superiority. The European shows his greater moral
strength by his tenacity of purpose, his persistence in the object
he has before him, his disregard of selfish interests in the
advancement of that object, and his sympathy with those about
him. These characteristics of a higher moral development
enable him to win the day in his competition with men of
natural capacity equal to his own, who fail in the struggle
because they have not the same "grit" or resolution, and, above
all, because they do not practise that abnegation of self in the
interest of others, and that sympathy with those about them
which have been inculcated into the European races by the
teaching of the Christian religion. Europeans are anything
but perfect in the practice of these principles, but when we
hear of a wounded British officer * dismounting from his pony
and insisting upon his wounded comrade, a native soldier,
mounting it in his stead and riding back to safety, while he
walked, although the enemy were firing from all sides, then
we know that such principles are sometimes applied, and it
is because they are more frequently and more thoroughly
applied by the Christian than by the non-Christian races of
the world that the former have been able to establish their
superiority over the latter.
If this conclusion, based upon experiences with men of
many different races, is right, it furnishes a strong argument
in support of the opinion that the development of the human
race is now, not towards bigger heads, with cold, subtle brains,
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