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 The answer to these riddles lies hidden in the womb of the future. But to this at least we may testify. In Asia the question is no longer, "How have we, tho White imperial peoples, treated the Asiatic peoples in the past?"; nor is it, even, " How do we propose to treat them in the future?" It is, " How will they deal with us in their continent, perchance beyond its frontiers, in the days to come?"