asa whole, we have spoken previously, we Of the solidarity of the Chinese po" have now to consider a similar characteristic in the constituent parts of Chinese society, as related to one another. It is difficult for a Western accustomed to a state of society in which everything is, in a more or less fluid state, to conceive the conditions of Chinese society, where everything and every person isin a fixed and generall unalterable position. Tu a Western land, although residents of the some village may be all acquainted with one another, their interest in each other's affairs is seldom Keen, except in the case of those who are by nature gossips, and who make it a business to and to disseminate small
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.