In speaking of Asiatics it should be borne in mind that we have alluded by this term to the Tartar of Mongolian inhabitant of the vast regions north of the Himalayan Mountains and to the north and east, generally speaking, of the Turkoman and Persion regions, which produced entirely different races of peoples, principally the Indo-European or Perso-Indian races from which the white people of Europe are derived, and the Semite tribes to which belong the Jews and Arabs.
Perhaps this explanation may be useful in avoiding confusion when speaking of the detested Mongol Tartars as Asiatics. At the present time the descendant and consanguineous races of Chinese and Japanese are also called Asiatics, making the same distinction between them and the other peoples of Southwestern Asia, above alluded to, namely the East Indians and the Semites.
Victor Hugo has said some place that the events of history repeat themselves with geometric certainty. Without going into a discussion of this proposition thus tersely stated by the great French philosopher and novelist, we may at least be sure that in a general way things that have happened are not unlikely in the lapse of a long period of time, under favorable circumstances, to happen again. Perhaps this may look like beginning the question.
Without wishing to be an alarmist let us make a hypothesis and leave the conclusion to posterity.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
