find Septen Te Shanghai correspondent of th Times has written under this head one of his cha-acteristic essays. He touches upon the slight estimation which the ordinary foreign resident nts upon the Babu-like product of Western schools and seminaries: flourishing under an Eastern He hints at the sina'l practical effect hich modern teaching carries with it into practical Chinese life. ho " thi most progressive official is liberal who are outsiders and can watch the game calmly and deliberately, see with absolute clearness, lit will be as easy for the Partingtons lof Peking to sweep back the rising tide as it was for their prototype to keep out the Atlantic. Liberal ideas fare absorbed with every Western word. Of their own initiative the friends of Reform and of Progress I public nice for public discussion of burning topies, a sign of [the times not relished by those who would rather there were no public pinion. They make headway in he Press, they bring enlightenment, hey cause dis: ction and unrest.
i always be the first duty of the reformer. No improv ment is possible until its necessity is recognised. Before a new structure an be erected it is sometimes neces-article to which we refer specially mentions the instruction of women and their growing interest in affairs as being one of the most marked examples of the progress of the young China party. But it is not in schools alone that this is being brought about. The article says nothing of the many cases in which c-dren of the higher classes of tiv s are receiving tuition from private tutors or governesses for which they pay good fees. That there should be a considerable number of such cases in Shanghai alone seems to us to be of higher importance' than the collection of greater numbers in mission schools, since it plainly proves that young China has a hold not only upon high position but upon money. day and reactionist to-morrow. how sary to clear the ground of an old his Western acquirements wear off one. All this is pioneer work, and under the constant friction of his much as the average Western man dings, how, in short. may look down upon the average it isa really dificult thing for him type of native reformer, the latter is to be other than he is—a Chinaman. quite capable of the only work which Were this all, we might dismiss now lies closest to his hand, and will, this attempt to sum up young China when the time enives, be capable of as being nothing more nor less than the constructive effort will the superficial opinion of the man in on he r- quired of hin. the street. But it is not all.
The The "Times" correspondent has writer proceeds to show that there is [done little to show how strong aserions sid to the new departure, a the grounds for this opinion, side which be reckoned with by bubly none but those who know young reigners jus tas it is being recognised Recent proceedings the part of the Chinese Government China rs know it will be il
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