Having narrated the circumstances of the war arising out of the affair of the British lorcha Arrow, the lecturer said, " Allowing that the end does not justify the means in any case, and that the Chinese must be taught lessons in their general policy and in their treatment of foreigners which they have all along ignored, while it is no less maintained that our forward action in such matters tends to develop national character on our part, which might otherwise degenerate and unfit us for our place in history, still reasons of that kind are insufficient in our view to defend the course taken, in the ease of the Second Chinese far."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.