Tue basis of men's thinking, whether in Barope or Asia, is moral. There is a standard of a moral kind to which all matters may be referred. The virtuous among all nations anita in unconsciously adopting an International Law of uni" versal goodness and uprightness. To this standard of generally-recei ved virtues, including philanthropy, respect for the rights of individuals, reverence for law, filial piety, the protection of the weak, and the like, all men consent even the vicious and the bad do not venture to question the paramount author. ty of that common law which controls the moral life of all mankind. The Chinese official class have in their train. ing come under the same educational in. fluences, so far as morality is concerned, as the corresponding class in Europe, while their country has grown up under the inflaence of an entirely different set of instructors, The Chi+ nese have often been called material. istic; bat while rightly so called within
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