ABSTRACT
It is scarcely surprising, at this particular stage of progress, which represents the development of the European family after four hundred years, to find growing up a fresh conception of Balance of Power; that between the East and the West. The late war between Russia and Japan has signalized the inception of this idea, for the evident reason that in it one of the European family has been overthrown by an Eastern nation. The hundreds of millions of East Indians have been for the most part more loosely knit than were the fiefs of a country in the height of feudalism. The backward political organization and development of other Eastern countries needs no insistence. While the Eastern community of nations is constituting itself, political relations with Europe and America will continue and develop; just as, throughout the mediaeval period, such relations existed between the European communities of those days and that which we now know as the nearer East.
