Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . amine and plague—he had mastered manysecrets of the soil, many principles of irrigation, many curiousthings in the way of fertilization. The Chinaman absorbed thisknowledge from him with such a degree of success that even to-dayone intimate with the race history of India may study the racetypes and the race history of China and read centuries of Hindulife in wh
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . amine and plague—he had mastered manysecrets of the soil, many principles of irrigation, many curiousthings in the way of fertilization. The Chinaman absorbed thisknowledge from him with such a degree of success that even to-dayone intimate with the race history of India may study the racetypes and the race history of China and read centuries of Hindulife in what is before him. It is next to impossible to studyChinese character and Chinese history without giving full creditto the Hindu for the part he played in developing the character ofthe Yellow man. MYSTIC INDIA AND ITS MARTS OF TRADE. 475 So far as history can inform one India had a well-establishedcommerce, on land and sea, before China had even developed a dis-tinct form of government. India possessed means of access to theocean that China did not. India was on a highway much soughtand traveled by the early explorers of Europe. The fame of thewealth of the princes of India had spread to all parts of the civil-. CRUDE CHINESE COBBLING. ized world before China was known. China was a nation of mysterywhen much of India was fairly well known to Western nations. Reference has been made in other chapters to the great high-way which connected India and China from the earliest days, andalso to the fact that the two nations came into close intercourse bywater routes. The Indian was polished, a student, a Chinaman was but little developed. He had wealth but did 476 MYSTIC INDIA AND ITS RELATION. know what use to make of it. His ideas of art were crude. Hisreligious system was not perfected. His literature was not yetout of the A, B, Cs. It is the history of all nations that the first lesson learned bytheir primeval peoples is that of self-preservation ;
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