This being so important, the'rea~ son why we do not realize it, is because the air is everywhere and we cannot exhaust it by use. We breath x whole day without any! effort, which i9 not like eating, when we have to use men's labour to prepare meals. Therefore we Yealize that eating is dificult but breathing is easy, and because it is easy no one pays attention to But for each man to stop his nostrils and Hold his breath in order test the importance of breathing!
only a small test. If you want try on a larger scale, just close all the windows In this hall, and the air we are breathing' will gradually decrease, until in a few Minutes, the hundreds of persons here will not be able to stand it.
The same reasoning applies if you shut up a person for a whole day in @ small room; as soon as be soleused he knows what a relief The Chinese, because their liberty has been to complete have never: noticed it, just as because there i9 to mach air ina room we do not consider its importance. As soon, however, as we shat all the doors and windows and no air comes in we realize how necessary itis. Two or three hundred years ago, the people of Europe suffered the evils of despotism to such an extent that they had absolutely no freedom, and 0 each man knew how precious erty was and risked his life for ft, Before they contended for liberty they were as though shat up) in a little room; but after they had won their freedom, as though they' had been suddenly' let out and had come into the fresh air, therefore they all realized that liberty was a precious thing. That is -why they' constantly use the phrase "Liberty or Death."
The Money Making Hubit But the circumstances in China fare different, The Chinese know nothing of liberty, only of getting rich. If you speak of freedom to a Chinese it is like talking to one of the Yao tribesmen ju the mountain fastnesses of Kuangsi about making money. The Yao tribesmen often bring from the depths of the mountains bear's gall or deer horns to and you cannot say that all men are tome open place where they barter them for goods. At first when the! people of these places offered: them money in exchange they didn't want it, and were only glad to exchange' for food, salt, or cloth. According to our ideas the best thing is to make money, but the Yao only require useful things and they fare quite satisfied. They do not understand money-making, therefore they do not care for money.
When the modern students of China advocate liberty amongst the common people, it is just like ing about making money to a Ya tribesman. The Chinese have use for liberty, but students, still continue to proclaim it; this. is really a ease of not recognizing the real conditions of things.
Liberty oF Licence Europeans 150 years ago, risked their lives for liberty because they Knew how difficult it was for them to obtain it. But now that it is won, places like France and. America are what we call the pioneer countries to exercise democratic rule. In these two countries fare all the people free or not? No, there are many classes such as the students, the army, officials and youths under 20 when are not free, so in the European wars of 100 or 200 years ago only those who were above 20 years of age, and those! who were not soldiers, officials or students contended for liberty.
Soviet doctrine pure and simple.
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