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W. Empire pod UK.com. When things stood still like this and we in Asia hypnotised ourselves into the belief that it could never by any possibility be otherwise,

Japan rose from her dreams and in giant strides left centuries of inaction behind, overtaking the present

time in its foremost achievement. This has broken the spell under which we lay in Torpor for ages taking it to be the normal

condition of certain races living in certain geographical limits. We forgot

that in Asia great kingdoms were founded philosophy science arts and

literature flourished and all the great religions of the world had their cradles

It's an unusual start to the religions of the world had their cradles.

It's an unusual start to the programme.

Hello.

It's a good one though.

It's a goodie.

I love that quote.

Yeah, well, I mean, tell us about the quote,

because it is a powerful, powerful quote.

Who did it?

So this is Shrebingerat Tagore, writing about Japanese nationalism and the rise of Japan in 1916 after the events of the Russo-Japanese War. And it is a moment when,

you know, when you're looking back at history, you can see certain points when the tides change it's

impossible to see it at the time but looking back you can see them and if in a

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