To summarise the Prince's address, he warmly congratulated his hearers on their fortitude in coming to a far country and putting up with the many. difficulties Picident to that step, all for the sake of acquiring knowledge. Stich conduct was that of patriots. All. of them were patriots, but the students best deserved Phe name. During his travels abroad he had concluded that the spirit of Western Tearning might be summed up in eight ideographs, namely, to know ourselves, to Imow others, to be diligent, and to conquer. There was nothing new in all this, and nothing inconsistent with the teaching of the Sa Islamism, Budahism, janity, and Confucianism all had the common basis, "know thy golf." They should never forget, the mortal aphorism of Confucits: Sorrow mot at being unknown to others, sorrow only not to know others." In oneself Glone lay the fountain of all, success. Culture would be rewarded. What to be especially avoided, however, was Qeifting with the age. "A man should fend the age, not be led by it; he should triumph over the evils of the day, not succumb to them. Wisely had Mencius compressed. the grand rule of life, when skid: "Value your own purpose." History showed that no man had ever won great sticcess without absolute. adherence fo the paths of reason. To bring passion into one's work was to stray from the Fpaths of reason. A man must try to be Pirgechearted and calm. The sages of old succeeded, every one of then, in making, good use, each of his special wit. To be inferior to others was humil to be aware of that inferiority and to make no effort was far more Jumniliating. "An Era of Reform."
He (the Prince) valued patriotism above all things and he would not forget. when he returned to Peking. to report to the Throne the earnestness and patriotism of the Chinese students in T not doubt the arrival of an era of reform when rulers and ruled thus came to know cee each other. He (the speaker) had_no claim to Ie and felt embarrassed in their presence, but if he could not discourse learnedly t" them he could at least appeal to them to remember their common country.
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