"Asiatic separateness" from a European. The author seems to think that this separateness, always insurmountable and inexplicable, often is due largely to the peculiar constitution of the Asiatic's mind. To me the whole thing presents no mystery. The separateness between an Asiatic and European is due to sensitiveness of the former and the superciliousness of the latter. The whiteman approaches us as inferiors not only but inferiors by predestination. Instinctively, silently but deeply, we resent this attitude. As a race, the brown and yellow man developed a high degree of civilization long before the whiteman was out of his jungles. If we have halted, and halted too long, in our progress, we are still capable of learning. It is only a question of time―and time is admittedly immaterial in Asia―that we shall again catch up with the white race and, who knows? we may surpass them once more.


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