ramifications of the Chinese mind where we
cannot follow.

The Chinese has been called the type of permanence, and well he has
merited it, dozing as he has through the ages. And as truly was the
Japanese the type of permanence up to a generation ago, when he suddenly
awoke and startled the world with a rejuvenescence the like of which the
world had never seen before. The ideas of the West were the leaven which
quickened the Japanese; and the ideas of the West, transmitted by the
Japanese mind into ideas Japanese, may well make the leaven powerful
enough to quicken the Chinese.

We have had Africa for the Afrikander, and at no distant day we shall
hear "Asia for the Asiatic!" Four hundred million indefatigable workers
(deft, intelligent, and unafraid to die), aroused and rejuvenescent,
managed and guided by forty-five million additional human beings who are
splendid fighting animals, scientific and modern, constitute that menace
to the Western world which has been well named the "Yellow Peril." The
possibility of race adventure has not passed away. We are in the midst
of our own. The Slav is just girding himself up to begin. Why may not
the yellow and the brown start out on an adventure as tremendous as our
own and more strikingly unique?

The ultimate success of such an adventure the Western mind refuses to
consider. It is not the nature of life to believe itself weak. There is
such a thing as race egotism as well as creature egotism, and a very good
thing it is. In the first place, the Western world will not permit the
rise of the yellow peril. It is firmly convinced that it will not permit
the yellow and the brown to wax strong and menace its peace and comfort.
It advances this idea with persistency, and delivers itself of long
arguments showing how and why this menace will not be permitted to arise.
To-day, far more voices are engaged in denying the yellow peril than in
prophesying it. The Western world is warned, if not armed, against the
possibility of it.

In the second place, there is a weakness inherent in the brown man which
will bring his adventure to naught. From the West he has borrowed all
our material achievement and passed our ethical achievement by. Our
engines of production and destruction he has made his. What was once
solely ours he now duplicates, rivalling our merchants in the commerce of
the East, thrashing the Russian on sea and land. A marvellous imitator
truly, but imitating