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The greatly increased interest in China at home will, I hope, 
give a stimulus to the study of the history of the social evolution 
developments of the oe race, one on the west of Nor E 
the other on the east side, very little deponado on each other 
At the start, the Ghinsee seem to have been fairly equal to the 
Westerners ; and even in the middle ages, judging from the way 
in which medieval travellers wrote, Chinese civilization was quite 
as good as that of Europe. Whence the decay on the east, the 
a crime against human nature. ey have anticipated all our 
current fads ; they have for sangeet adopted peace-at-any-price 
as the highest morals, and h despised war and soldiers 
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regards interior policing and protection from foreign aggression. 
Needless to say that rod € for years gone in for the rooney us 
examination, and hav result a body of ii i — 
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autocratic one. It is nothing of the sort, it is on a ihordughly 
democratic basis, the democracy of the Tam mmany Ring kind. 
There is no country in the world with less of aristocracy, and the 
result is not encouraging to those who sigh for abolition of the 
ouse of Lords. I doubt if one Prose rightly attribute any of 
the decay of China to the abse of chris tmn f for Europe 
owes its progress much more to Gree and Rome, than to Israel. 
In China, woman has never been in a position of honed and trust 
and influence. This is an side failing. teed amid ET for 
woman occurs in many hundreds of characters, some indicate 
female relationship, but all the rest, save pian inakat vices and 
failings, words such as envy, lust, &c. eas agg oiim character, 
hao, good, is made up of woman and son; but some Chinese 
Say m is only an apparent and accidental vest cili pos: character 
originally meant something else 
The decay of manly spirit, brought about A oe idea that war 
is immoral,-the low position of wom an, absence of an 
and trivialities akin to Latin verse, all these causes mus 
been acting rera to have brought an intelligent race into 
such a es sition. 
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nearly so interesting as Mengtze nor $0 rich in species. Hills 
clad with pine and oak are almost barren in interesting plants, 
