Asia and Europe : studies presenting the conclusions formed by the author in a long life devoted to the subject of the relations between Asia and Europe / by Meredith Townsend.

  • Meredith Townsend
Date:
1901
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Credit: Asia and Europe : studies presenting the conclusions formed by the author in a long life devoted to the subject of the relations between Asia and Europe / by Meredith Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preface to the First Edition I miNK it advisable to say that this volume^ though it consists—the Introduction excepted—of reprints from the Contemporary Review^'' the old National Reviewand the “ Spectator f is not like many such reprints a bundle of disconnected thoughts. All the papers are directed to one end,, a description of those inherent differences between Europe and Asia which forbid one continent perma- nently to conquer the other, ‘The struggle between Europe and Asia is the binding thread of history; the trade between Europe and Asia is the foundation of commerce ; the thought of Asia is the basis of all European religions : but the fusion of the Continents has never occurred,, and in the Author s best judgement will never occur. It is rather a sad- dening reflection that the thoughts of so many years are all summed up by a great poef in four lines : The East bowed low before the blasty In patient deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder pasty Then plunged in thought again. ^ Matthew Arnold
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