CLY WIN, ARTHUR cORNAcY, The most uncertain point about both Reformers and others, will thus be the point which most concerns ourselves; for on such things "the Master did' not speak."
Yet even assuming for the moment that the lands of Shakespeare and Milton, of Goethe and Schiller, of Washington and Lincoln, and the rest are all barbarian, as is alleged in some photo-lithographed books published as recently as last year, what then f All through the life of Con: fucius, there was no trouble with bar-parians. Why? Because seventeen years before his birth China, on the advice of an enlightened statesman, concluded a treaty with those in the west. There twas n0 trouble because friendly terms were established; because treaties were made and kept. It was thus that Contuems, although with numerous internal problems to deal with, lived in times free from foreign com-Plications. Had the treaties been broken repeatedly and the Jungs demanded a city or two over the border, we should have "the Master" speaking out eloquently on the doctrine that righteousness (even with barbarians) is the true policy.
Again, when China had" become cone solidated into one, under the Han dynasty, we find that the very first item recorded at the beginning of the reign of a promising young sovereign, at the suggestion of the illustrious Minister Tung Chung-shu (see Giles Biog. Diet. Par. 2,092), was the suppression of such men of the tongue as "Shen, Han, Ssu, Chang." Time and space would fail to relate who and what the four men were. A famous episode in the career of the last-mentioned adventurer Chang I (see Giles Biog. Par. 70), is the fact that in the year B.C. 313, he endeavoured to gain a temporary advantage to his particular State by promising another State a bit of territory of sixty li square, if that State would break off a covenant with a third; and then when that latter arent had been accomplished, asked the expec
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