Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 40: A Monthly Review; July-December, 1896
The duty of moralising may be left to the clergy and special correspondents, and all that is intended here is to suggest considera tions which, though familiar to all political thinkers, the majority Of Englishmen are too careless or too occupied to work out for them selves. The close Of the nineteenth century has seen the interest Of the human tragedy transferred from Europe to Africa and Asia. The coming century, which will be full of scientific marvels radically changing the conditions Of modern life, will also see the awakening Of Old world nations whom many have believed to have sunk into hopeless decrepitude; while the savage peoples who have, through long ages, lived in fear and darkness, will, at last, turn to the light and, with glad hearts, prepare to take their rightful places at the feast which civilisation and freedom have provided impartially for all mankind. Everywhere the valley of dry bones begins to stir with new life. The miraculous advance Of Japan is no subject for jealousy or fear, but is the happiest omen for all. India, educated and free, will quadruple her wealth; the desert plains of Persia may again blossom as the rose, and the valley Of the Nile repeat the glories Of the Pharaohs. The crowded ant-hills of Chinese cities will be trans formed by the railway and the telegraph; while the spirit of change, like the faint breeze that precedes the dawn, is beginning to wake the dwellers on the slopes of the Atlas, by the far waters Of Nyanza, and among the Turkomans' camel-hair tents. The earth is in travail with the new birth that is to be, and the future is Of hope and not Of despair.
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