Excerpt from The Futurism of Young Asia: And Other Essays on the Relations Between the East and the West

Eur-America had been challenging Asia for about a century. It was not possible for Asia to accept that challenge for a long time. It is only so late as 1905 in the event at Port Arthur that Eur-America has learned how at last Asia intends to retaliate.

Naturally the challenge is twofold: political and cultural. Or rather, to be monistic for once, the political enslavement of Asia by Eur-America engendered also the cultural chauvinism among the scientists and philosophers of the West in regard to the East. Altogether a vast body of idolas has grown up under the aegis of that new species of despotism, viz. albinocracy and colonialism.

The reply from Asia is accordingly being offered in two fields of revolt: military and scientific. But, undoubtedly, the more Port Arthurs Asia can possess to her credit side the more effectively will the combined intellect of Europe and America be brought to its senses, and the more easy will it be for Young Asia to purge the world of the occidental idolas and usher in the Renaissance of the twentieth century.

Luckily for mankind, with the progress of world-events, with the increased opportunities for international intercourse and with the expansion of the mind generated by new data in anthropology, psychology and sociology, many of the liberal or radical politicians in Eur-America and some of its open-minded scientists and philosophers have begun to join the ranks of Asian insurgents both in politics and science. Thus is being facilitated the subversion of the superstitions which have been dominating the life and thought in the West.

The present volume of essays, disconnected and scrappy although they be, is like everything that Asia has done since 1905 in any field but another term in the series which is destined to bring about the great consummation. It will perhaps be regarded by the colleagues and comrades in the Western world as furnishing to a certain extent the logic or methodology which must have to operate in every process of Aufklarung before the final synthesis or reconstruction is reached.

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