Why then is there no unification in China: Why then is i€ so difficult to find a path to peace? The answer must be that the condition of China during the years succeeding the revolution was not so different from conditions in China throughout her history. When was there a time in the history of China when there was for more than a generation no civil or foreign war. When one reads the history of China one is rather surprised to find that these people who have been held up to the world as the models of peace and non-resistance have had dynastic wars, civil wars, wars for unification, wars for division, wars for conquest, wars against barbarians, wars against invaders, wars of reprisals, defensive wars, offensive wars, throughout their story. And throughout these wars, the people of the country have been going their sad way, because the soldiers were mainly professional, often recruited from other peoples outside the boundaries of China Proper. The people were only afflicted when the invaders destroyed their villages, which after all was not worse than the floods and famines which were the acts of the gods.
What, for instance, has been happening since the founding of the Republic which equals the hardships on the people of the Taiping days? Yet, the masses did not rise up against either Taipingg or the ineffectual government whidhi was unable to. suppress this revolt until after enormous, almost incalculable, damage had been done. The Chinese take their sufferings as they come.
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