Some moody writers (for the most part, gant) have described China as the one may conjecture, disappointed litihappiest of nations, in that lawyers are there unknown. Is not this statement, however, somewhat too liberal? Leaving out of account the problem whether the presence of lawyers ina country is or is not conducive to its higher happiness there remains the question—Do they exist.in China? Now of course no one will pretend that the familiar bowleged and begowned species of western lands is to be found haunting the courts of a Chinese yamen, but surely there is evidence enough to show that his humpier congener, the attorney, or something
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