. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. entury the Russians andChinese were in contact in Mongolia. Atthis period China ruled eastern Turkestan,Tibet, Nepal, Burmah, and Annam. . We have mentioned a Japanese invasionof China (or rather of Korea). Except forthis aggression upon China, Japan plays nopart in our history before the nineteenthcentury. Like China under the Mings, Japanhad set her face resolutely against the inter- ference of foreigners in her affairs. She wasa country leading her own civilized life,magically sealed against intruders. We havetold little
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. entury the Russians andChinese were in contact in Mongolia. Atthis period China ruled eastern Turkestan,Tibet, Nepal, Burmah, and Annam. . We have mentioned a Japanese invasionof China (or rather of Korea). Except forthis aggression upon China, Japan plays nopart in our history before the nineteenthcentury. Like China under the Mings, Japanhad set her face resolutely against the inter- ference of foreigners in her affairs. She wasa country leading her own civilized life,magically sealed against intruders. We havetold little of her hitherto because there waslittle to tell. Her picturesque and romantichistory stands apart from the general dramaof human affairs. Her population was chieflya Mongolian population, with some veryinteresting white people of a Nordic type,the Hairy Ainu, in the northern civilization seems to have been derived f South, of iiiiitiuimi subject toMiihraita. Trtbuta. vr:..-7!:.:i-AvC: Sphere oF £Luenc& Tmnch setdemarts md^^ned almost entirely from Korea and China ; herart is a special development of Chinese art,her wTiting an adaptation of the Chinesescript. § 11 In these preceding ten sections we havebeen dealing with an age of division, ofseparated nationalities. We have alreadydescribed this period of the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries as an interregnum inthe progress of mankind towards a world-wide unity. Throughout this period therewas no ruling unifying idea in mens impulse of the empire had failed untilthe Emperor was no more than one of anumber of competing princes, and the dream 446 THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY of Christendom also was a fading dream, ances were close at hand, or that the path ofThe developing powers jostled one another man through space and time was dark withthroughout the world ; but for a time it countless dangers, and must to the end re-seemed that they might jostle one another main a high and terrible
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