Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-18 | Page 12 | Teh Course of Empire

I r The Course of Empire r rt t 0 LESS T ESS than thana a t year ago alo wh when the nationalist army was headed toward Pekin many of our more mon optimistic idealists wert were in e ecstasy tasy o av expectation tha the suffering long C were about to establish for or themselves a a. united and progressive nation One dr dream m months ago went remains divided and not far ar from rom L C ch SI The war lords still IiII rule their various It is b an interesting matter mailer of speculation I S 1 lation n as IS to fo how many years or decades it will require fo for China to pull herself out of ti the mud We fc recall that famous line of Bishop Westward the course of empire empireS S ta tates cs its lis way China had developed A high while Europe was as still a wilderness t s of or years a ago o. o Empire Umpire and civilization tion have gradually dually come west and now make their abode in these United States for all aU Britain's Butan But Brit an ain's ains s desecrate clutch on their coat tail tails tail How many ny centuries c tudes before these twin forces will desert ir te w and md cross the Pacific Or will they sin stay here C forever Many now living have seen S S Japan rise to 0 the status of a world would power power power-a a d dead d nation it would almost seem risen again S 1 George Wilhelm Vilhelm Friedrich Hegel the old German philosopher said that China and md India lie tie still outside the worlds world's history as the mere presupposition of elements whose combination must be waited hUed for to constitute their vital progress Hegel named Persia ersia as s the hat first empire that passed away while India and China perpetuate a natural vegetative vegetative vegetative vege vege- existence even to the present time Perhaps liege Here felt that Chinas China's real reat chance at the Ule game gam Hefel 0 of empire lay in the future and md andS S not nOI the past pasi One recalls what Berkeley said along with warnings in recent years about Yellow Peril and Tide of Color But Dut Aristotle said The ilic genius of the theS S Europeans is different from that of the who of all nations are the most patient patient pa pa- tient of despotism Historian Geor George e Rawlinson Raw Raw- Imson Unson reported that Slow conquests long bug struggles of race against race amalgamations insensible growth and development of po pp- systems to which we are arc habituated in records of the east cast arc are unknown to the countries countries coun coun- tries lying eastward of the conquest causes no assimilation Events of this century have indicated however that China under foreign domination domination domina domina- tion has begun the slow stow process of assimilation lation bUon and md it may be that the next few hundred hun hun- died dred years will iII be most important Empire and civilization have been traveling traveling travel travel- ing lug at a 1 fast ut clip these last two or three hundred years