We speak of democratic rule because it is the outcome of liberty, therefore we have to explain clearly. the circumstances under which the people of Europe fought for it, If we do not understand this we shall not realize how precious freedom really is. At the time that Europeans contended for it, 1 was a kind of frenzy, but when the excitement had cooled down they realized that liberty had both a good and evil aspect, and was not such a seered thing after all. So when foreigners say that we are sand, we acknow-edge it, but when they say that we do not know what liberty is, and that our ideas of government are crude we do not contour.
Why are the Chinese merely! sand?) What makes us like sand, but the fact that our liberty is) excessive. "Because it is 20, we had to bring about a revolution, but our: object was different from' that foreigners, therefore our methods Now after all why did China revolt? To speak plainly our object: was exactly opposite to that of Europeans. Formerly Europe re. volted and contended for freedom was excessive, we had no, cohesive quality, no power of resistance, we were just sand. Because' we wore sand, we suffered from the encroachment' of forel fsm; from the oppression caused by the economic war carried on by the' Great Powers. At the present time we are unable to resist. If in the future we resist foreign oppression, it will be by destroying each man's! liberty, and uniting into a firm and. compact body, just as we mix with sand in order to make it solidify into stone. ent all be aareoeal Thi spcelovsntan of this erpunest The Chinese to-day, because of their excessive liberty have man-fested the abuse of freedom; and this is not only the ease with the students in the schools, but also la four Revolutionary Party; so. lok ing back, we find that from the time fof the Mfanchus until now we have! not been able to establish a TepUbl because of the misuse of liberty, The detest of our. Revolution Party by Yuan Shihckai was. also owing to this. In the second year! of, the Republic, Yuan Shih-kel obtained a big foreign loan without the consent of the Parliament. also killed Sung Chino-jen and did many things to destroy the Re-Public,
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