What science had to say in the way of general theories might be questionable, but its results in the way of technique were patent to all. Science gave the white man the mastery of the world, which he has begun to lose only since the Japanese acquired his technique.
Source： Bertrand Russell: Power, 1938.
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The turning point at which Japan, a small country in the Far East, began to attract global attention was the Russo-Japanese War. Japan's victory in the earlier Sino-Japanese War surely surprised the world as well, but that conflict was, after all, a war between Asian powers, and the shock it gave to Western nations may have been relatively limited. Russia, however, despite the domestic political unrest it was experiencing at the time, was a major white power, and there is no doubt that Japan's victory over such a great nation was a profound shock to the world.
The two images attached to "Today's Words from Russell" symbolically convey the impact this event had on the international community at the time. The second illustration, in particular, strikingly captures the global astonishment of that era and leaves a strong visual impression.
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