But what has this to do with government? After all, have the Chinese freedom or not? In our illustration éf the sand we -have Tearnt that the Chinese have really great liberty, so much so that they have not taken the trouble to notice {it or even to care about the word. What is the reason? It is like thi In our daily life the most important things are food and clothing. Each day we have at least two meals, and'cach year at least two suits of clothes, But there is one thing much more Amportant than either food or clothing. Ordinary people think that if they do not eat, they will die, and consider eating very necessary, gut the other thing is 10,000 tim@?Jore necessary than eating, only people do not realize it and so! think it of no account.
'What it is then? it is breathing the air, How is it that breathing'
10,000' times more necessary than eating? Because one or two meals a day will suffice to keep us alive, Dut "we must breath at least "16 times each minate in "order to live and be comfortable, If we did not! do thus we could not endure. If you do not believe it, just try it by Stopping up the nostrils for al minute, and not breathing the 16 times. "If T try it for less than minute I feel very bad.
Now there are 24 hours in a day, and 60 minutes in each hour. Each minute you need to breath 16 times, that is 960 times in one hour oF 23,040" times ina day: therefore it is quite vight to say that broathing is 10,000 times more necessary than eating.
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