Capitolo 42
Runs, and you/he/she has chosen the people's relationships civilized with them
allied wild, or hostile, or subjects as the principal theme of them
manual art. 'Tis a serious theme, for him mean includes in himself the
problems of the future. Against the old battles they fight out now nearly;
but a new are appearing ahead in distance for us. The cosmopolitanisation of the
world is introducing in our half strange elements of discord. A
you conglomerate of elements of ethnical of unwelded it usurps the stage of history.
America and South Africa already has their question of black; The California
and Australia already has their Chinese question; Russia is fast
finding her/it Asian, his/her question of Mahommedan. Also France, the more anymore
attentively European in interest of European countries, it still has him
Algeria, his/her Tunis, his/her Tonquin. Spain has Cuba and Philippines.
Holland has Java. Germany is oppressing himself/herself/itself with the troubles not yet been born
of a Hinterland. And as for England, she still staggers on under the
I load in increase of India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Southern Africa, the west
Indies, Fiji, Guinea New the north Borneo--all of their commune with without end
run-questions, entirely pregnant with difficulty.
Who can be amazed that among this tumult that boils of colours,
instincts, creeds and languages art would have had to assure on the
run-problems as his/her great theme for the time being? And she has assured
on them everywhere. Same France has not been able to avoid the
contagion. Pierre Loti is the representative most typical French of this
vagabond spirit; and the question of the peoples naturally imagines
it to his/her mind in the true Gallic way in the de of "Mariage Loti" and
in "Mrs. Chrysantheme." He sees him/it through a halo of vague sexual
sentimentalism. In England, it was Lean Rider of the Head that before
visibly puts the way; and nothing is more notable in everything of his/her job
what a the fact that the interest mainly assembles in the picturesque one
juxtaposition and contrast of civilisation and the savageness. Once the indication