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cable, what will be the reciprocal effects on western military 

 requirements and what will be the inevitable financial burden, 

 some touches of which Europe is even now feeling on her own 

 account. We may leave to the Orientals to count their own 

 costs, for if we force them we perhaps do not care, but what 

 will it cost the western peoples to be ever ready to meet the 

 possible aggressions of four million soldiers inspirited and 

 drilled to fight for their nation's life, backed by proportionate 

 reserves and supported by well developed resources. What will 

 it cost Europe if the four hundred millions of China are forced 

 to acquire the skill and the spirit of the forty millions of 

 Japan ? 



I think there is no necessary "yellow peril" now, but if a 

 "yellow peril" is foreshadowed, of w^iose creation is it to be? 

 If China is to enter the lists of aggressive military powers, 

 is it of her own free choice, or is it under compulsion? If 

 under compulsion, whose compulsion? If the result be expen- 

 sive, who ought to foot the bills? Wlio will ultimately be 

 likely to foot the bills? 



Fortunately China loves peace ; China has given historic 

 demonstration of her love of peace as few peoples have ever 

 done. Is not this love of peace an asset worth cultivation by 

 western nations? It is not indeed worth importing and cul- 

 tivating on western soil? 



China desires scientific education. Just now she is more anx- 

 ious for the results than the method and the spirit. She would 

 like to put her four hundred millions into the western type of 

 efficiency which Ja])an has given to her forty millions. But 

 still China prefers peace. And the radical educational question 

 of the hour is this : May she have the scientific education of 

 peace which she prefers or must she have first a scientific educa- 

 tion for war? May she secure peace by peaceableness or only 

 through prowess in battle? 



In the past the Chinese have placed the scholar at the top of 

 the social scale and the soldier at the bottom. Will the west- 

 ern world permit this scale to stand and adopt it for them- 

 selves or will they force its reversal? Will the West do what 



