THE CHICAGO-LAMBETH ARTICLES L89 



ties are still there. But, penetrating them 



all in a silent and most singular way, arc 

 those other ideas and traditions which are 

 transforming her courts of justice, which 

 are recreating her social order, which, in 

 one word, arc making of the modern Anglo- 

 Indian one of the most interesting and 

 promising studies in the whole racial prob- 

 lem of the future. It is the same thing 

 that we find in Africa, in Kamchatka, 

 and in Japan. In this last nation the 

 remarkable transformations which have 

 come to pass have been the effects of a 

 longing not for an English but for an 

 American type of civilization, we are told. 

 Yes, but what is the American type of 

 civilization, after all, but the Anglo-Saxon 

 type ? We may change the scene, but the 

 language, the laws, the literature, the tra- 

 ditions are substantially the same. And 

 these illustrate, whether in the old world 

 or the new, a remarkable quality of adap- 

 tation like which I do not hesitate to say 

 there is nothing else in all the earth. It 

 is a quality which will not be confined or 

 shut in, and which has made the whole 

 round world somehow conscious of the 

 existence and sensitive to the touch of 



