You must not
deny your relatives, the other animals. Their history is your
history, and if you kick them to the bottom of the abyss, to the
bottom of the abyss you go yourself. By them you stand or fall.
What you repudiate in them you repudiate in yourself--a pretty
spectacle, truly, of an exalted animal striving to disown the stuff
of life out of which it is made, striving by use of the very reason
that was developed by evolution to deny the possession of evolution
that developed it. This may be good egotism, but it is not good
science.
PAPEETE, TAHITI.
March 1908.
THE YELLOW PERIL
No more marked contrast appears in passing from our Western land to
the paper houses and cherry blossoms of Japan than appears in passing
from Korea to China. To achieve a correct appreciation of the
Chinese the traveller should first sojourn amongst the Koreans for
several months, and then, one fine day, cross over the Yalu into
Manchuria. It would be of exceptional advantage to the correctness
of appreciation did he cross over the Yalu on the heels of a hostile
and alien army.
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