The ideas of the West were
the leaven which quickened the Japanese; and the ideas of the West,
transmitted by the Japanese mind into ideas Japanese, may well make
the leaven powerful enough to quicken the Chinese.
We have had Africa for the Afrikander, and at no distant day we shall
hear "Asia for the Asiatic!" Four hundred million indefatigable
workers (deft, intelligent, and unafraid to die), aroused and
rejuvenescent, managed and guided by forty-five million additional
human beings who are splendid fighting animals, scientific and
modern, constitute that menace to the Western world which has been
well named the "Yellow Peril." The possibility of race adventure has
not passed away. We are in the midst of our own. The Slav is just
girding himself up to begin. Why may not the yellow and the brown
start out on an adventure as tremendous as our own and more
strikingly unique?
The ultimate success of such an adventure the Western mind refuses to
consider. It is not the nature of life to believe itself weak.
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