THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Changing East. “The Unchanging East” is a hackneyed but misleading phrase. It suggests a Mahatma-like immobility which the East is very far from exhibiting. The 'illusion lias been fostered by the poets, who have told us that, though the centuries go by and empires rise and fall, the East remains aloof, disdainful, unmoved. That was true .enough, up to, sav fifty years ago. Till then the conversation of the Oriental was proof against progress of time. The Indian ryot still tilled his fields with a plough of a typo that had been used when Alexander crossed the Indus. The Chinese intelligentsia entered the Civil Service by passing examinations similar to those which had been set under the Aling dynasty. The Egyptian fellaheen irrigated their plots with, waterwheels of a design thatdated from the beginning of the Christian era. But within living memory the East has been revolutionised. It has adopted Western institutions and ideas with extraordinary speed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1926, Page 2
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162THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1926, Page 2
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