There is another point, or another pect, to which I would direct your} attention. It should be remembered] that there are a number of ideas] finding expression in China which were not there when the Treaties ally made. There are, for example, the ideas of which the goods we send to China are the embodiment. You have pare the list of China's exists to-day with a quarter of a century ago to realize the difference in China's outlook which trade has created. Tt is im possible for any people to use the large variety of mechanical a) phanoes which modern ci has produced without—beceming] familiar with the ideas which they represent. More particularly is this the case where the country is beginning, as China is beginning, to) be able to produce those appliances) polities.
Then there are the ideas brought into, spread through, and generated, in China by foreign educate and the rise of a modern educa system. Again, there are the ideas} transmitted from other Eastern] countries by travellers and by the press, together with the knowledge [of the effects which those ideas have! had in the practical realm of] polities,
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