Writing, however, in August, of relations, our corres: pondent quoted the opinion of a cantonese expressed ag_ follows Most of the people in the south are in thorough sympathy with Sun and are opposed to Yuan. They have never forgotten that Sun relinquished the Presidency in favour of Yuan on the understanding that Republican ideas should be accept ed and gradually put into operation, Meanwhile, Yuan his been as re-progressive as it was possible to be ani has repineed the young men who fought for the new order by old men who never had, and never can have, any sympathy with a Republic. because they have no knowledge of what it means."
Now, while in theory a good Confucianist may also be a sound Republican, in real Chinese life the rare. The one has existed for centuries without knowing anything of the other and the atmosphere in which he has lived "honoured is as unto the growth of republicanism as any that could be image ined. Accordingly, if our corres-ate of the feeling of Canton, then not much is to be deduced from the Confucian revival to which our himself bears wit-
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