After the Revolution, the. whole country went mad, and would have demceratie rule as explained the foreigners carried out in China, But what this democratic rule wa they did not even stop to examine. Ju my Former lect you the history of the struggle for Gemecracy in foreign lands and also Sts results, and from those you may ether that even in foreign countries the people's rights are not path of progress has met with many obstacles. So we cannot take the foreign method of exercising democratic rights as our standard; ite guidance is not good enough.
How much better is government] in foreign countries than in China? During the last 200 or 300 years there have been many revolutions in Europe and America; but though the progress in government has beer: much quicker than in China, the books they-have used on this subject are the same as those of more than 2,000 years ago. In Greece! 'h there was a great teacher of gov-emmental philosophy called Plate, and his book "The Republic" still studied by scholars, and is sti') considered of much value on the subject; very different from military treatises which are out of date in ten years. From this we may' earn that the study of physical science changes every ten years because of its rapid progress, But fis to the science of governmen:, Plato's "Republic" is still considered valuable though more than 2,000 years old. It is still used, therefore the progress of foreign countries in the science of government is not as rapid as that of physical science. There has been no great change in ideas of government in all that time. If we copy foreign government, thinking that it has advanced like physical science we shall make a great mistake.
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