The Great Dilemma

In the nineteenth century, when europe is really at the door lik asia as a result of industrial revolution and various military advantages. They kind of accept this idea that they had been declining for centuries. But materially, there wasn't really centuries of decline. What you have is maybe even the the industrialization that happens in l nineteenth centuries. Or you have relatively parallel stories, which flips or like the great divergence, as they call it, k in the nineteenth century.