Excerpt from Intellectual and Political Currents in the Far East As long as a hundred years ago a great philosopher said, Indian wisdom is streaming back to Europe and will bring about a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought. But it is only the events of the more re cent past the rise of Japan, the great Chinese trans formation, the nationalist movement throughout the Orient that have made us more generally conscious of the fact that the separate existence of the East and the West has come to an end, and that, in profoundly influencing each other, they will both contribute their share in developing the all-human civilization of the future. There have been great crises in past history, but none comparable to the drama which is now being enacted in the Far East, upon the outcome of which de pends the welfare not only of a country or section but of all mankind. In order that the issues now pending may be solved in a proper way, a sympathetic mutual under standing between different races or civilizations is indis pensable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.