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0099 Among the Celestials : vol.1
Among the Celestials : vol.1 / Page 99 (Color Image)

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Nowadays, however, the railway has brought
the Russians in force on to the northern
frontier, and with the completion of the Great
Siberian Railway, a few years hence, in place
of the weak and scattered tribes of the last
century, Manchuria will find a strong civilised
military power weighing down upon her.
Similarly steam navigation has not only
strengthened the position of Russia on the
Manchurian border, by enabling her firmly to
establish herself on the northern ports, which
she filched away from China, at a time when
she was fighting both ourselves and the
French; but it has brought military and com-
mercial powers like Japan and Great Britain
right up to the doors of Manchuria. Distant
powers, which in themselves are yearly growing
more powerful, have been brought as it were
into almost direct contact with the country,
which is thus being compressed by a number
of forces never felt before.
The result of this new pressure must in-
evitably be advancement and development.
It may mean the effacement of the present
rulers, and the substitution of rulers with more
capacity for military organisation. But in