This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... 328 CHAPTER XXXII. A Japanese Triumph--and After. Japan has won her victories by the discipline of her soldiers, the simplicity of their lives, the selfsacrifice of the entire nation, and by elaborate preparation. Russia has lost (so far as the war has yet gone), despite the courage of individuals, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... 328 CHAPTER XXXII. A Japanese Triumph--and After. Japan has won her victories by the discipline of her soldiers, the simplicity of their lives, the selfsacrifice of the entire nation, and by elaborate preparation. Russia has lost (so far as the war has yet gone), despite the courage of individuals, because she despised her enemy, refused to prepare to meet her, and believed that a policy of bluff and of bluster would carry her through. The men who acted for Russia in the Far East before the war betrayed the cause of the white races. The war, it is true, is not yet over, and the results are not as yet assured. But even in the event of Japanese exhaustion and defeat, the position of the Oriental cannot be the same in the future as before. The Eastern races have learned the possibility of standing up successfully against the West, and the lesson of Japan is being to-day conned and absorbed by her neighbours. What will a Japanese victory mean? The English public, save that part of it which has lived in the Far East, is so fully convinced that all the right in this war is on one side that he who ventures to hint at anything to the contrary can scarce expect a sympathetic audience. Yet I would point out a few root facts.;. First, the Japanese are essentially a military nation, with the virtues and vices of such. They are hardy, proud, supremely brave, and have an unconquerable belief in their own might. Men who have seen no distance below the surface talk glibly of Japan having thrown off her Orientalism. In truth Japan is the most Oriental of all the nations and the most firmly rooted in the conviction of her own superiority. For the moment it suits Japanese statesmen and publicists to take smilingly the patronage of the West. But already in...
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