THE UNREST OF ASIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 10 July 1908, Page 4

THE UNREST OF ASIA.

The "Spectator" (London), referring to the unrest among the different peoples of Asia, asks: "Is it really the fact that the strength developed by reformed Japan has lilted the depression of centuries from all Asiatics, and excited them to an imitation which must, of course, finally break up the an:ient quietude? . . . The fact is often questioned, but there undoubtedly is a comity of Asia which is at least as operative as the comity of Europe. Or is it possible that an emotion akin to the one which produced the Crusades, and, though not so directly connected with any religious impulse, still fatal to quiescence, is sweeping through Asia fiom Nagasaki to the Bosphorus, stirring up races which for ages have slept the sleep of content, but are now determined to advance upon some path, mental or physical, which they think open. The thing occurred when the barbarians rose on Rome, and again when science in its second revival told men that the sun, in spite of the evidence of their eyes, did not rise and set. Doubt then came into the world, and all the world was shaken. What the result will be we know as little as our readers; but of this we feel assured, that the relation of the continents will be permanently altered, or, it may be more exact to write, the widespread effort to alter that relation will call upon the white men for new exertions, and, above all, for new and more careful meditation."