maintains that in Christian enlightenment lies the sole hope of Asia. Truth has the inherent power to convince and so control the mind. It alone can reach the heart and so govern thie conscience and create character. It can convert the individual can reinforce his moral nature and re-by changing his ideas and ideals. It generate the whole disposition and life.
this enlightenment of conscience and endowment of character that constitutes the supreme need of all Asiatic peoples. Their energies are paralysed. A fearful fatalism blights all effort, progress, and hope, and leaves their peoples on the brink of ruin ad national, Tne remedy then in enlightenment—Educate and Christianise, You will then inspire men, create justice, ennoble government, civilised as well as sive Chins. What has been done in the Occident and for the Anglo-Saxon peoples can be done in Asin and for the Chinese race. Thus even in the depths of iner calamity she may lay the foundations of a durable greatness.
THE DETERMINATIVE FACTORS, The optimism of Sir Robt. Hart is as groundless as the pessimism of Mr. Townsend, Boxerism is not and never has been patriotism. Its history and aims forbid hope. The occupation of India by Britaia is x historical and present day proof that it is not impossible for a European nation to govern an Asiatic race, And so far as the vast majority of the Chinese are concerned they would prefer the justice and liberties of a European control to the present Tartar regime.
The mailed fist policy and the enlightenment programme are the other suggested remedies. No one will doubt that brains and character will be the determinative factors in the nation's fate in the 20th century. Japan was not reformd by military prowess, but by the mightier mental and moral fores that create armies and control States. The pen is mightier than the sword, and the mind of man more than his military strength
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