From a New Book.
ASIA’S TRAGEDY Laud of Asia, ant-heap ol men! Land of paradox, where the (lead are venerated like gods, where the love of children amounts to adoration, where the family, united by traditions as old as the race, by powerful and still effective feelings, remains the changeless armature of a decaying society . . . and where man counts for so little! War, famine, epidemic; ealainaties succeed one jtnotlier in' i.’ie midst of general indifference. One may say that the race, in its profounu genius, disdains these plagues; death may act quickly and take the living in theif thousands; others still more numerous will replace them, and the race lives and triumphs in the irresistible force • of its new seed. And all these men live and suffer intensely; their despair before the death of a belovel being is immense and deep; but they submit, with the resignation of fatalism, to the hard, incomprehensible law, paying with their individual defeat for the irresistible vitality of their race.—“A Surgeon’s China,” by Albert Gervais.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 7
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171From a New Book. Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 7
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