PAVEL UKHTOMSKII

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

The dominant factor in the history of Russia's past is the influence of Asia. She crushed us, but she has also regenerated us.

European colonizers, though not without envy and enmity, have shared among them the best coast districts of these lands [Asia]. Towns of such universal commercial importance as Hong Kong and Singapore are the most eloquent witnesses to the indefatigable enterprise of Europeans amidst the prevailing Asiatic torpor.

The strangers [European imperialists] have dethroned and oppressed the East. Coming here to live and make money, they do not find a home …. The natives are not brothers in humanity to them; for them the land is one of voluntary exile, and the people are considered as miserable and inferior beings. The latter gradually realize the meaning of these outrageous views, and repay their "masters" with intense hatred

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

European colonizers, though not without envy and enmity, have shared among them the best coast districts of these lands [Asia]. Towns of such universal commercial importance as Hong Kong and Singapore are the most eloquent witnesses to the indefatigable enterprise of Europeans amidst the prevailing Asiatic torpor.

The dominant factor in the history of Russia's past is the influence of Asia. She crushed us, but she has also regenerated us.

The strangers [European imperialists] have dethroned and oppressed the East. Coming here to live and make money, they do not find a home …. The natives are not brothers in humanity to them; for them the land is one of voluntary exile, and the people are considered as miserable and inferior beings. The latter gradually realize the meaning of these outrageous views, and repay their "masters" with intense hatred