in China is a very different thing from public opinion in the West. There are very few intelligent Chinese who are not distressed at the present retrograde action of the Government, but none of them would lose a finger to have it otherwise. I asked 'a Chinese scholar what the people would do if the Emperor of Russia ed the throne of the Emperor of China. "The good people would do nothing" he said, the people say, we don't mind who is the boss (Jaopan), we are ready to work for any master." Thus the difference between the good and the wicked Chinese would seem to be that the former cares much but does nothing, the latter cares nothing but does much.
15th October.
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