The Chinese people are ignorant, long-suffering, and pathetically patient. They see things from an Oriental point of view. They do not tink og the Western nations do. Their -point of, view.and their outlook om life, mentally, morally, and tically, is diametrically opposite to that of the citizens of the Wear, The Chinese as a nation live in the ast. They are introspective and]
tic and never dynamic.—They determine things and do things as their fathers did—not the fathers of} a generation ago, but the fathers of forty centuries ago. They are the victims of maxims, no doubt com-letely applicable to the times of which they ware the outward expression; but in no sense useful in this prospective, progressive, and moving age. The people of China fare content to meditate and reflect and find enlightenment in what the Western world can classify only as mental and moral darkness. The people of China, if I may so phrase it, orientate by facing antiquity, ut-torly oblivious, so to apeak, that the dead past, regardless of its wisdom, ind. its ethics, cannot enlighten or illuminate the pathway of a present that is always converging on the futare.
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