"By Tera 4
Tibet, the Land of the Lamas, the Roof] of the World, the Forbidden Land is the El Syrado some would. seek to picture it, can Donn anyway account for its being £07, Does The dominance of: religion, the: absence of rheae and the system of polyandry, make fimetand. the, land: of peace, rest and quiet have tried tq describe it? Or does its physical, geographical and spiritual position Ping to ita tranquility denied to other States bay country. which enjoys isolation is more AMloss free from border. worries, and anxieties Sid any nation or State which is absolutely (ndependent, of. other mations can enjoy itself Wnle this condition lasts. Is Tibet then.quite Jadependent for what it shall eat, what it shall {rink and whet it shall'wear and can it peacefully and quietly rest in the knowledge that fumelent unto the day isthe evil thereof? lias the Land of the Lamas any. secret, the knowledge. of which would make other. tions and States -peaceful and>happyysand if fo can that secret be, mide public 'The lamas have very little use for Birming-spoons—they eat their food with their hands; they have very little use for Sheffeld alves' and Staffordshire pottery on the back' of a wild, obstreperous, frisky yak would drive insurance companies to distraction. When the first dynamo was on its way to Lhasa the Jamas got hold of it and angrily teed It over a precipice, "Are the lama and the nomad and the merchant satisfied with them present position and condition and oes this condition and. position ensure them the peace, quiet and rest which they now appreciate and enjoy Has economics—and by economies we mean the production and distribution of wealth as it affects the welfare of the communlty—anything to, do with the peace and happiness of the Land of the Lamas? we take the population of Tibet as that of Scotland, about §,000,000 people, has it, or can develop. an economic condition Ukely to destroy its "internal quiet and disturb and distress its next door neighbour? A. coal strike on the Roof of the World seems quite impossible, firstly, because there is practically coal in the Forbidden Land, and secondly, because the: Tibetans burn caw manure. may have @ nasty smell and cause considerable inconvenience \to the nose but no one can deny its heating propensity and its ability to keep a nomadic tent warm and cozy: and) it is perfectly free, as free as the mountain sir that the Tibetan breathes, and it may be fathered without price. Therein es its convenience, Litang is 14,000 feet above sea ev@l and the principal fuel burned by the] '4000 lamas and about 10,000 people is yak manure, The great, Litang plain stretching away stacks it on the pile. Great fun!. But no coal strikes and no Ministry of Labour and Ino all night sitting to discuss a nasty problem. JAnd: what is more, and perhaps more imtribution. The Tibetan farmer living at much lower level feels his need of milk, butter and cheese. The farmer distributes group originated in North America. This the nding of American anatomists and palacontologists, who have made a study Of the skull and other bones of the giant and his barley, the nomad distributes his butter. ttle pandas in relation to various other car~ Imanure; take it or leave it. [Distribution! if this is simple economies the nlvores, living and fossil, the latter from The warm sun-will soon dry it up and it Iromad will reach the lama's paradise without Beological strata in countries as far apart as Inaturaily becothes a cake ready for. the nomad \discovering the fact.
England and Chili in South America. Accord-lor lama fire. No effort whatever is made at Imagine what trouble and distress there ing to them the giant panda, in spite of ite statistics, production or distribution, the wel-Jwould be on the Roof of the World if the close external resemblance to the bears, is more nearly related to the racoon of North America, fare of the community is nicely maintained Inomad knew anything of the Law of Diminish-the coati of South America, and the kinkajou land everyone enjoys a nice warm, cozy, fire, jing Utility and the Law of Satiety of Wants. of tropical America. Not only so, but it is also bit smelly to begin with, but soon com-The only economy he has so far made any loser to the present day dogs and wolves than fortable and satisfying and enjoyed by all. effort to practise is an economy of inter-itis to the bears. The common ancestor of all national relations.. Apparently the nomad these animals was the Miacis, which lived on has discovered that familiarity not only breeds this earth in the Upper Eocene period, some The lama enjoys peace contempt but a whole nest of other things thirty to forty million years ago. Miacis was rest. simply because he has a small carnivore not unlike our present day land so he has strictly adhered to economy in eschewed economics and kept his wife eivets, and from it evolved the ancestors of the Jany friendship with the civilized world. And varies groups of carnivores found on land life on a very simple and unostentatious friendship, no matter how sound it may earth today. "These included a large dog-like plain, No one who has ever seen a nomad based on exports credits is sure to intro-animal called Hemfcyon, which was. the ances-will deny the fact that a change of some sort Jduce. international complications and even for of all the bears, and a small dogelike would do him good. 'The Tibetan nomad is' bring about a world war. And the nomad animal, Cynodietis, which gave rise, on the one strong, handsome and well-built fellow, and is determined it such a state of things should liliand, to the ancestors of present day dogs, it attired in a loose, summer, suit lan attraction in any' part of Land il come to pass he is not going to be a partner wolves, foxes and the like, and, on the oth to what may be called the ancestral racoon, 2 "Go thou small animal which has been called Phiaocyon larly strata of society. Here surely {thing with a sound economic basis Bs and which was located in North America, due course Phlaocyon gave rise to the present Jnomad indulged in winter suits there @ay racoon, the coati, the kinkajou and the giant and little pandas. That was some may never wear trousers, in fact may {feel very comfortable in them, and after zB Atteen to twenty million years ago. The line
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