Arizona republican., 1901-10-03

The struggle between Europe and
 Asia is the binding thread of history;
 the trade between Flu
 ASIA rope and Asia Is the
 AND foundation of commerce.;
 EUROPE. the thought of Asia is the basis of all Euro
 pean religions; but the fusion of the
 continents has never occurred, and in
 the authors best judgment never will
 occur" This is the opinion of an Eng
 fish observer, Mir Meredith Townsend.
 who in Asia and Europe furnishes a
 timely contribution to the literature of
 the farther east and its future relations to the nations of the Occident. He holds that there is an Asiatic mind
 which differs fundamentally from the
 European mind, and will render inn possible all Europeanization of Asia. Permanent military occupation of the continent he considers an impossibIlity, and China seems to support him in this. He reminds us that the conti- nent could, in an emergency, put forth 50,000. GOO warriors, many of them good fighting stock; but whether they could pe uHiteu IS d QueSuon WHICH ne uO6S not settle. The change of civilization in Japan he considers still an experi- ment, whose success the future alone can show.
 The failure, in a general sense, of Christian missions in China is thus explained by this student of the Asiatic mind:
 ''The truth is that the Asiatics dis like Christianity, see in it an idea! they do not love, a promise they do not de- sire, and a pulverizing force which must snatter their civilization. Eter- nal consciousness! That to the major ity of Asiatics is not a promise, but a threat. Though Asiatic in original is the least Asiatic of the creeds- Its acceptance would revolu- tionize the position of woman, which Is the same throughout Asia, would profoundly modify all social life and would place by the side of the spiritual dogma, thou shalt love the Lord thy | God" which every Asiatic accepts in | theory, the far-reaching ethical doc Urine, and thy neighbor as thyseif,' which he regards as an intolerable i burden
 In like manner he indicates why all | the benefits England has bestowed up- i on her Indian subjects-justice, lib- ] erty. security-have failed to make i them loyal, for, he maintains. what ever may be said to the contrary, India | IS not loyal England has given much, but the European mind fails to req ize what it has taken away:
 The immense mass of the peasantry 1 who benefit most directly by the Brit sh ways of ruling are. it must be re- an inert mass. It is the | active classes who have to be consid- cred, and to them our rule is not. and cannot be. d rule without prodigious One of these, Of which they are fully conscious. is the gradual iscay of much Of which they were proud. the slow death. which even the Europeans perceive, of Indian art, In- iian culture. Indian rilitary spirit. engineering. literary skill, are all perishiag out, so perishing hat Anglo-Indian5 doubt whether In iians have the capacity to be archi- ects, though they built Benares; or though they dug the artific- el lakes of Tanjore; or poets, though he people sit for hours or days listen ng to the rhapsodists as they recite poems. which moves them as Tenny son certainly does not move our com non people. Another is that the price If what they take in perfect justice s that they shall never right them elves, never enjoy the luxury of ven seance, never even protect their per sonal dignity and honor, about which hey are as sensitive as Prussian off, CTS They may not even kill their wives for going astray. And the last md greatest one is the total loss of he interestingness of life