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There are a number of us in Europe for whom european civilization no longer suffices-dissatisfied children of the spirit of the West, who feel ourselves cramped in our old abode, and who, without depreciating the subtlety, the brilliance, the heroic energy of a philosophy which conquered and ruled the world for more than two thousand years, nevertheless have had to confess its insufficiencies and its limited arrogance. We few look towards Asia! Asia, the great land of which Europe is but a peninsula, the advance guard of the army, the prow of th heavy ship, laden with a thousand wisdoms.... from her have always come to us our gods and our ideas. But, in the course of the many circuits made by our peoples who followed the track f the sun, losing contact with our native East, we have deformed, for our own ends of violent and limited action, the universality of her great thoughts.