No weak spot in their social organism destroyed them from within; no epidemic, in the shape of foreign hordes, fell upon them from without.

For in spite of the fact that China offers the unique example of a country that has simply lived to be conquered, mentally her masters have invariably become her pupils.
Having ousted her from her throne as ruler, they proceeded to sit at her feet as disciples.

Thus they have rather helped than hindered her civilization.
Whatever portion of the Far East we examine we find its mental history to be the same story with variations.

However unlike China, Korea, and Japan are in some respects, through the careers of all three we can trace the same life-spirit.

It is the career of the river Jordan rising like any other stream from the springs among the mountains only to fall after a brief existence into the Dead Sea.