Kipling has the most glorious way of stating the obvious, in-your-face truths that the world attempts to ignore. Some of what he says holds true as much today as it did at the end of the 19th Century.

“…Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. You cannot reform a lady of many lovers, and Asia has been insatiable in her flirtations aforetime. She will never attend Sunday-school or learn to vote save with swords for tickets.”

--Rudyard Kipling, “The Man Who Was”