The difficulty here ws honesty; the officials preferred a small salary, with the opportunity for squeezing, to a fixed, comfortable stipend, so the moral qualities for just government were considered I The prospects in education seemed much brighter and the signs of an approaching change most apparent. The writer specially Awelt on the prospective influence of Japan from its proximity, the Asiatic features of its ci on, the comparative cheapness of its intellectual labour, and the present decided leaning of the mandarins towards the sunrise kingdom, Sth December.
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