But in order that an Empire may be powerful and prosperous, all the leaders: must unite and stand firm. In this way all that are born within the Empire will possess anid enjoy whatever privileges and blessings obtain therein, just us the sons and grandsons that are born within any ancestral home will possess and enjoy their share of the ancestral patrimony. he ame first rules apply in both cases. The citizens of auch country will sit dows, and partake of the produce of its wide acres; those bora in a poor State will not possess Iand enough to stick an awl in, Suppore a mn were born in Burma or Corea, where there are few mines and very little commerce. He ennnot, as he would like, produce wealth and enjoy it, But the Chinexe are possessed of illimitable mines and extensive commerce; they enn, therefore, both get and enjoy.' Suppose now that China should, become utterly defunct; all the mines would therefore become useless to her, Thus the people of a small country must their lives in distress and poverty, while those of a big country possess boundless wealth and enjoy. every happiness, England and France, for example, hold Within their control the mines, the trade, he railways and the steamers of other coun: tries, They invent and construct, and 60 ensily increase their wealth. Suppose a man's family property is dissipated, his children and grandchildren must suffer dis-
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