The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-04


that the quality of the things they re-
ceived was for weaker race. Why
the Japanese discovered this is obvious.
They were destined to evolve a higher
type of civilization. The pupil was
like lion cub destined to become the
monarch of the forest, while the teach
er was like full grown donkey with
sufficient strength but to grow no more.
This Is the reason why the teachers
could not satisfy their pupils in their
restlessness and Impotence for prog.
ress. AS soon as the Japanese had inn
bibed ideas from their teachers they
assimilated and evolved ideas much
superior to the original.
In military life the Japanese showed
a marked superiority to their Mon
goiian neighbors. The history of Japan
records repeated conquests over the
Mongols. Some among the Japanese
writer's declare that Genhitsukan, who
subjugated the entire dominion of Rus
STA and extended his Monaghan empire
as far as Ogder and Danub, was
Japanese. He was identified with Min
anOtono- Yoshitsune. who after the de-
feat at Muzu by his brothers army,
fled to Sankan, now called Korea, where
he began his remarkable career of con-
quests. In martial life the Japanese
were. to those who were invaded and
conquered, like the VOLTS cry to the
cur. The Japanese were most daring
pirates, recruiting around the coast of
Africa and America long before the
discovery Of the latter by Christopher
Columbus
Some argue, however, that the Japa-
nese belong to the Monaghan family on
the ground that they lack in causative
and creative originality, of which all
Mongolians are deficient. Is this prop
Osition justifiable when we consider the
| fact that till but very recent years the
japanese had no scientific ideas? They
had no complex mental experiences. A
great intellect is product OF COM
| blnation Of complex mental expert
ences. Secluded from the rest of the
world, the Japanese had no opportu-
| nifty to interchange experiences with
| the world Of wisdom. We know that
| the glory Greece had attained was the
result Of her expanded foreign rela-
| lions. Neither Phidias nor Pericles ap-
peared until after the Persian war. 1t
seems to be rather hasty on the part
| Of the critic at this stage of Japanese
| civilization to conclude that they lack
\ in causatiye and creative originality.
Because Japan has produced only
| few chemists and physicians who fig
| ure among the greatest in the last
\ quarter of the nineteenth century and
| only few Kurolkis and Togos, and no
| in the last forty years since they came
4 in touch with the scientific idea Of the
| West, they are already condemned by
| some as a people without creative
genius. The critic must be patient
and see if the Japanese within the next
| fifty years do not demonstrate their
inventive and creative originality. Do
! the Japanese appear as a dying race
when they have just begun developing?
The Mongolians are dying everywhere,
mentally. The infinite productive ac-
! tfvity Of nature Is also infinitely ac-
tive in sweeping away all that have
discharged their duties according to
the plan Of the great evolutionary
1 programme. A student Of psychology
and ethnology cannot fail to see mel
| ancholy sign Of old age on the brows
| of every Monaghan family. The idea
! that China is awakening is expressed
4 by "optimiSts" who have hope even in
the resurrection of the flesh" but who
/ are utterly ignorant as to the evolu-
/ tionary plan of humanity. We see so
! often nowadays articles in current lit
/ erature headed China Is Surely Awak-
4 ening." But what facts do these ar
! ticles demonstrate to establish rea-
| sonabIe ground for such a hope? None.
| but that old story of China's natural
wealth, the enumeration of her mineral
1 riches, her productibility and her great
| u CASUAL OD-
| servers these circumstances may seem
as the factor to mold China's great
ness, but to psychologist and menta-
| physical thinker, when applied to the
| Chinese problem, they count but little.
| 1t is the mental constitution of the
Chinese race which they should OBJ
/, serve and draw the conclusion from
| as to whether China has any future
| But the "optimists," in their short
\ sight n0noSS- NIT a question. edo Won
| not observe a great awakening among
4 the ChineSe?" Do you not see China
| sending thousands of students to Jap
| an, hire hundreds of American officers
to train their army; one viceroy urges
| the government to raise 100000 troops
and build fifty battleships? Yes, we
| see all these and more, but We do not
| see that Cinnamon are really awaken
! ing. Their mental constitution has not
| been changed, for no process has yet
| oyerthrown that immutable law that
! 1-the old shall never become young
| again." China is an old man, and only
] those who observe specifically think
1 that the political agitation in China is
a real awakening of the race. But the
psychologists see some pathetic sign in
| the wrinkled face of the Chinese, who
| are endeavoring to inspire even false
| hope that modern science can make the
old young again.
But we return to our proper subject.
Who are the Japanese? From what
parentage have they descended? Some
| ethnologists declare that they are of
the Aryan stock, others see consider
able resemblance between the Japanese
and the Malay, still others believe that
they are somehow related to American
Indians and to the inhabitants of the
islands Of the southern seas. Be it as