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"Tr I were asked to summarise the government of China, I should say the people were Communists, managing their own affairs, ruled by a despot, whose administration was democrati¢, and whose administrators were liars, thieves, and extortioners." This is the conclusion of a lecture on "'I'he Government and Religions of China" recently de-
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908 livered by "Mr. Jesse Herbert, barrister-at-law, late legal adviser to the Govern-Chinkinng Chinan ment of South China, and Professor of of Alexander, or in. Rome's palmiest days; while as to the present day, our own English empire counts over two hundred and twenty millions in British India alone. Mr. Herbert, went on to give: his hearers a good many facts, seasoned with a good deal of exaggeration, about the reverence for antiquity in China, and the patriarchal system of. government; and it surely must have struck an intelligent Newcastle audience that a system of government could not be quite so bad as the lecturer would make it out to be, which had enabled the Chinese to be the only survivor of all the ancient civilisations. How superficial Mr. Herbert's acquaintance with things Chinese
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