[The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Soul of the Far East CHAPTER 8 49/50
As for Far Orientals, they themselves furnish proof against themselves.
That impersonality is not man's earthly goal they unwittingly bear witness; for they are not of those who will survive. Artistic attractive people that they are, their civilization is like their own tree flowers, beautiful blossoms destined never to bear fruit; for whatever we may conceive the far future of another life to be, the immediate effect of impersonality cannot but be annihilating.
If these people continue in their old course, their earthly career is closed. Just as surely as morning passes into afternoon, so surely are these races of the Far East, if unchanged, destined to disappear before the advancing nations of the West.
Vanish they will off the face of the earth and leave our planet the eventual possession of the dwellers where the day declines.
Unless their newly imported ideas really take root, it is from this whole world that Japanese and Koreans, as well as Chinese, will inevitably be excluded.
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