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vanish, when more patience and toleration will be shown by 

 each side for what is not understood; when sympathy and 

 goodfellowship will build up a closer friendship and establish 

 sounder relations between East and West. Some 500 years 

 before the Christian era Confucius said "Within the four 

 seas all men are brethren,"* and some 200 years later 

 Mencius tells us that the master craftsmen when teaching 

 their apprentices employ the square and compasses, for with- 

 out those implements squares are not to be formed or circles 

 completed."! Let the master craftsmen, both of the East 

 and West, remember that they are engaged in a great work, 

 and let those who help in the work, in however small a 

 measure, realize that they are rendering a service to the 

 world at large. I am persuaded that when this world-war 

 on the battlefields of the West is ended, a war in which the 

 Chinese are lending a helping hand, we shall not be long in 

 seeing great changes in this great and ancient country, — 

 changes that will not only be for the real interest of China's 

 millions, but for the good of all mankind — changes that will 

 surely aid in the correct solution of many of the world's 

 great problems and puzzles. 



*Confucian Analects : Yen Yuan, Bk. XII, ch. V, p. 4. 

 tMencius : Kao Tzu, Bk. VI, Pt. I, ch. XX, p. 2 and Li Lou, 

 Bk. IV, Pt. I, ch. I. 



