The economic revolution of the world is treated with great skill and insight. In England for a few fears cotton mills and steam powe: literally threw many: workers back into serfdom. Hebert Owen's is a great name to. remember in the process of emancipation, It is strange to think that his were the ideas which to-lay seem destined solution of the industrial that began over a cen-ago and still are not settled. Karl Marx has bad his day. The nonce that his frightfully heavy. and involved writing has had en the world is one of the marvels of history. But even Russia will free if presently from the misconeeption of his teaching in which siroletarian teachers have thought they discerned an earthly paradise. The economic revolution and the consequent spread of trade brought back the West and East into direct conflict once more. This part of the story is remarkably well told by Mr. Sokcisky, who shows very clearly where the conflict real y lay, the East hugging its seclusion, the West insisting with equal deter-ition that mo country can ext itself off from the rest of the world, Accepting this view us possibly correct, it follows the West has an enormous responsibility discharge in retura for forcing itself nto the East and disrupting it with its strange and alien ideax of progress. Precisely how this responsibility is to be discharged has not yet been solved. Everyone Knows how Japan took the matter into her own hands and profited by the lessons of her invaders in a manner without parallel in the world's history. But the ease of China is more difficult, At. least, however, Mr. Sokolsky's buck may' kelp, by. revealing to Chinese thinkers how many other' peoples have had to tread the way along which they are now straggling, and to those other peoples how great similarity exists between China's misfortunes and their own earlier chapters.
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