Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from China and America to-Day: A Study of Conditions and Relations
The author of one of the most beautiful of Ori en'tal poems assumes the interval between the East and the West as a standard of immeasurable dis tance. The observant traveller who crosses from Europe to the Syrian shore of the Mediterranean Sea recognises at once that he is now in another world. It is not mere differences of language or of race, for those are found everywhere; but there is a pervasive barrier, felt, but unseen, which divides, and for aught that we can see always will divide, the Occident from the Orient. All this and much more is condensed into the five letters, which, to our thought, represent the greatest of all the continents - Asia. It is the land of origins. The human race must have come from somewhere, and whether we locate that some where in some valley to the north, or upon some plain to the south, we cannot persuade ourselves that our most distant ancestors were not Asiatics.
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