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Sir,—Ann impecunious foreigner of genius thrown out of employ-will want to establish you a University, dredge the Woosuny Bar, or make all the sons and grandsons of the bluck-haired peuple happy with w cheap juck's show, or ex! it is called, Bly object, however, throughout the Empire might behold it and be attracted toxethor. May the use-loss firewood, which I have spent many years in yathoring—blossoms and branches, flowers and foliage, laurel and cypress, roses and myrtle and lilac, now all dried and withered, serve but to enkindle such The education of Chinese knowledge has a two-to facilitate and better the conditions: of intercourse nations of the Wes is to learn of the foreign nation ud of bettering the internal go ment of the Kmpire and amelioration and strengthening the material, moral, and social conditions of the people. Not:
standing that these two objects are imately related to exch other, the one not to be attained without some part bringing about the other also, yet the actual training of these youth aid their future career will be guided and influenced not a little by the end and object which there the overlooking of them may w or they themselves may afterwards assume, In the ons spank more of their future des they will return to be disgusted with, and disgust, their own countrymen, by whom they will be regarded as foreigners, without the prestige mith which fureignera are
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