I went again to Ceylon to look into the conditions of Coolie importation, and then I was going back into Assam once more, still in the wake of , when I chanced upon a misadventure. I had my first and only experience of big game shooting in the Garo Hills, I was clawed out of a tree by a wounded panther, he missed his hold and I got back to my branch, but my shoulder was put out, my was badly torn, and my blood was poisoned by the wound. I had an evil uncomfortable time. My injury me greatly, and for a while it seemed likely I should be . I had to keep to vehicles and reasonably good roads. I wound up my with a voyage to Singapore, and from thence I went on rather disconnectedly to a number of exploratory journeys—excursions rather than journeys—into China. I got to Pekin and then suddenly faced back to Europe, returning overland through Russia.  
I wanted now to study the conditions of modern industrialism at its sources, and my disablement did but a little accelerate a return already upon. I had got my conception of the East as a whole and of the shape of the historical process. I no longer felt adrift in a formless of forces. I perceived now very clearly that human life is a creative struggle out of the usage of immemorial years, that the synthesis of our contemporary civilization is this creative impulse rising again in its latest and greatest effort, the creative impulse rising again, as a wave rises from the trough of its , out of the ruins of our parent system, imperial Rome. But this time, and for the first time, the effort is world-wide, and China and Iceland, Patagonia and Central Africa all swing together with us to make—or into another catastrophic failure to make—the Great State of mankind. All this I had now distinctly in my mind. The new process I perceive had gone further in the west; was most developed in the west. The end lifts first. So back I came away from the great body of mankind, which is Asia, to its head. And since I was still held by my promise from returning to England I betook myself first to the Pas de Calais and then to Belgium and thence into industrial Germany, to study the socialistic movement at its sources.
 
And I was beginning to see too very clearly by the time of my return that what is confusedly called the labor problem is really not one problem at all, but two. There is the old problem, the problem as old as Zimbabwe and the pyramids, the declining problem, the problem of organizing masses of unskilled labor to the ends of a Great State, and there is the new due to

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