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Updated: June 21, 2025
His name is Omer-Rashid-Effendi, a name under which he has already passed here twice. My houris are astonished with all they see, and their pleasure is indescribable. Of course my first care was to Europeanise their toilettes. What a business it was!
We know how he sought to Europeanise the semi-Asiatic populations by means of force. Japan is another example of a revolution effected by a government, but it was her machinery, not her mind that was reformed. It needs a very powerful autocrat, seconded by a man of genius, to succeed, even partially, in such a task. More often than not the reformer finds that the whole people rises up against him.
Until the eighties, the general tendency of progressive thought was at one with the older Christian tradition which ignored "race," and the aim of the expansive liberalism movement, so far as it had a clear aim, was to Europeanise the world, to extend the franchise to negroes, put Polynesians into trousers, and train the teeming myriads of India to appreciate the exquisite lilt of The Lady of the Lake.
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