China has the most equable climate, and is the most fertile country in the whole world. The reason why other nations do not for the present take our territory, is because they are fewer in number than we. [Editorial Note: Neither the unqualified statement of China's charm and wealth, nor the reason assigned for her immunity from conquest is acceptable. This whole discussion of world population is too lunscientifie to deserve analysis and {is not taken seriously by intelligent Chinese.} But in a hundred years' time if our numbers do not increase, and theirs increase greatly, it will be @ case of the larger number: conquering the smaller, and they will certainly appropriate China. When that occurs, China will not only have lost her' sovereignty, but the Chinese will be absorbed by the other peoples, and will also have lost their nationality. Formerly the Mongols and Manchus conquered China, the smaller number subduing the Inrger, with the intention of causing the larger number of Chinese to be their slaves. If in the future the Great Powers conquer China, it will be a case of the larger number subduing the smaller but they will not make us slaves, because when that time arrives, we Chinese will not be in a position even to be slaves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.