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and Japan. On pp. 4 and 5 of this book the author writes : 

 " It could not be other than a matter of the highest 

 industrial, educational, and social importance to all nations 

 if there might be brought to them a full and accurate 

 account of all those conditions which have made it possible 

 for such dense populations to be maintained so largely 

 upon the products of Cliinese, Korean, and Japanese soil. 

 Many of the steps, phases, and practices through which 

 this evolution has passed are irrevocably buried in the past, 

 but the maintenance of such remarkable efficiency attained 

 centuries ago and projected into the present with little 

 apparent decadence, merits the most profound study, and 

 the time is fully ripe when it should be made. Living as 

 we are in the morning of a century of transition from 

 isolated to cosmopolitan national life, when profound 

 readjustments, industrial, educational and social, must 

 result, such an investigation cannot be made too soon. 

 It is high time for each nation to study the others, and by 

 mutual agreement and co-operative effort the results of 

 such studies should become available to all concerned, 

 studies, too, that have been made in the spirit that each 

 should become co-ordinate and mutually helpful component 

 factors in the world's progress. 



" One very appropriate and immensely helpful means for 

 attacking this problem, and which should prove mutually 

 helpful to citizen and State, would be for the higher educa- 

 tional institutions of all nations, instead of exchanging 

 courtesies through their baseball teams, to send select 

 bodies of their best students under competent leadership 

 and by international agreement, both East and West, 

 organizing therefrom investigating bodies, each containing 

 components of the eastern and western ci\'ilizations, and 

 whose purpose it should be to study specially set problems. 

 Such a movement, well conceived and directed, manned 

 by the most capable young men, should create an inter- 

 national acquaintance and spread broadcast a body of 

 important knowledge which would develop as the young 

 men mature and contribute immensely towards world- 

 peace and world-progress. If some broad plan of inter- 

 national effort, such as is here suggested, were organized, 

 the expense of maintenance might well be met by diverting 

 so much as is needful from the large sums set aside for the 

 expansion of navies. Such steps as these, taken in the 

 .interests of the world-uplift and world-peace, could not fail 

 to be more efficacious and less expensive than an increase 

 in fighting equipment. It would cultivate the spirit of 



