So that when worse comes to worst, and the Turk finds himself at length with his back against the last consolations of the faith that makes all things straight, he has the assured knowledge that he is in the right as against the unbelievers; whereas the Russian bureaucrat in a like case only knows that he is in the wrong.

The last extremity is a less conclusive argument to the man in whose apprehension it is not the last extremity.

Again, there is some shadow of doubt falls on the question as to which of these is more nearly in the German Imperial spirit.
On the whole, the case of China is more to the point.

By and large, the people of China, more particularly the people of the coastal-plains region, have for long habitually lived under a regime of peace by non-resistance.

The peace has been broken transiently from time to time, and local disturbances have not been infrequent; but, taken by and large, the situation has habitually been of the peaceful order, on a ground of non-resisting submission.