In the "Times of India" of 6th May, there is leader of four columns and a-half, nearly four thousand words, on "The Res! Yellow Peril." When one has gotten over the shock of the mental spectacle of a perspiring but persevering journalist' making his pen traverse, on a rough computation, over a thousand lineal foot of paper, there is little energy left in the hot season with which to ferret out what the real yellow peril actually is, according to the Indian "Times." Glancing down the first column, we learn that the "inner meaning of the great struggle" between Russia and Japan is the fate of China. Japan "only seaks to make China great and powerful." Whichever way the war ends, there will be a coalition of China and Japan. In military pupilage to Japan, "the Chinese were apt pupils, despite the uninformed sneers frequently uttered about their courage." This suggests a quaint antithesis, in "the utterance of well-informed sneers."" In the third column we arrive at an interesting prophecy: "Ten years hence, Chins will be covered " with a network of railways," and this complimentary if not quite now) reference to the Chinese as a people: "The Chinese are one of the most capable nations in the world, along their own peculiar lines. They possess inexhaustible vitality, and their past intellectual exclusiveness has arisen largely from the knowledge that they had attained a high grade of civilisation while and ing one another with wooden the Western races were still clad in skins
clubs. Those who call them ignorant can only do so in ignorance. Astronomy was a systematic: study among them twenty-two centuries before Christ. They established the principles of mathematics, of trigonometay, and of algebra at a very early period. In philosophy, they expounded the Baconian method before Bacon, and the Cartesian theory before Descartes. They partially stumbled upon the theory of biological evolution, and that of the conservation of energy, in the pre-Christian emo; their philosophers clivised the theory of other centuries ago, and even conjectured the crone tion of light.' In art and in' literature their achievements extort admiration. In the science of government, they have at one time or another experimented with every known method. No nation with a history 80 creat and so unbroken can contain within the seeds of permanent deco and Lord Salisbury spoke with truer insight than many of his followers when he said he declined to believe that such a race could become hopelessly moribund. Be it remem. bered, too. that China possesses untapped mineral resonices: vaster than the United
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