Every man looks only to his own person and family, and is altogether oblivious of the further fiot that the welfare of the great whole should claim his attention as if it were his own ancestry.
A little thought will' show, that each Chinese is daily planning and'scheming so as to protect his own person and provide for those immediately dependent upon him. He places the welfare of the Empire outside his thought, and assumes that itis the duty of the Emperor and Mundarins to attend thereto, Each man says: "The Empire is no business of mine." Therefore, although we have wealth, wisdom, courage, and talents, in abundance, ench devotes his energies to the development of hia own business, but gives no thought to the affairs of the Empire. It is not right, however, thas any man should simply devote his talents to his own business, to the exclusion of every other interest. Everybody should know int nations' decay originates from this attitude of mind.
Farthermore, the Chinese are unwilling to change their old ways and usages, Therefore, this distress lias come upon us. Now, the person and property of each individual man constitutes an integral part of the whole, and that whole may be said to constitute an Empire.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.