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Pictographic Reconnaissances. Part IV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

L. C. Hopkins
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That “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”, Rudyard Kipling has impressed on us, and the dictum is widely accepted as an article of popular faith. But as an axiom it is not be to pressed without certain qualifications.

Beyond doubt there prevail certain antipathies, dissympathies, and as it were static estṛangements of populations, deeply rooted in racial sub-consciousness, but capable of becoming profoundly dynamic under appropriate stimulation and appeal.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , January 1922 , pp. 49 - 75
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1922

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page 64 note 1 I do not understand this alleged astronomical fact.

page 64 note 2 More strictly speaking, is the modern development of , which is the primitive scription of hsün.

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