Those who have read as much as we have published of the Three Principles, and those who read on to the end also, will have discovered that Dr. Sun in spite of his dabbling in many political cults, in spite even of his. intimate contact with Red agents, during his latter years, remained devoted believer in democracy. His search through tle whole range of political: doctrine was not so much designed to find for China the form of government best suited to the country, as the form of democracy that would suit China's needs, The idea of a dictatorship of the proletariat repelled him almost fas, much as any other form of dictatorship. He set one on his revolutionary career with one idea as an axiom, the idea that the authority of government should be vested in the will of the people, and from this he never deviated. He never dreamed lof questioning the soundness of this principle from first to last, nor would he have entertained for a moment the thought that democracy in one form or another was unsuited to China, for the Chinese people unsuited democracy. Throughout thi now famous book there are evidences of changes of opinion as the composition of it pro-grossed. "It is evident that the author was feeling round for: something. This we can all understand who know anything of the history of the Republic from the time his political following founded it in 1911 down to the time of Dr. Sun's death in 1924. Every attempt establish anything resembling an Occidental democracy, whether nationally or locally, resulted in failure. He was' - naturally trying to find out what: was wrong, why all experiments ended in burlesques upon democracy that were sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, and he was exploring every field of political theory to find a plan that would make democracy workable in China, This rather pathetic faith in democracy, this belief that it} simply must work in China if it can be made to: work elsewhere,
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