California rivals the climate and beauty of Greece, She is mainly populated by a people descended from the ultimate pioneers of the boldest race. As I referred to Rome earlier in this article, looking backwards, 80 we will' look forwards. When some governor of California, in 2850—a thousand years after California was "placed en the map"—or some hierarch of the world in 3850, 2,000 years after, proclaims the anniversary of Calimore ordered state of affairs was evolved, and the region became industrialized, and other develop-and, its prophetic vision, fornia, there may be a story to {California is fitting herself to recall' more majestic than even engage in this great era, which that of Rome. it was very rapid, In 1906 a disastrous earthquake, followed by extensive fires, destroyed the greater part of San Francisco and other cities. To-day California is strong, radiant and full of hope of a future of phenomenal prosperity—after 75 years.
'A Sorry Contrast As I write my mind wanders back to China, and I cannot but make contrasts, What are the ist 75 years to China? Certainly jo has changed more during the last 75 than ever before in her long history, and more during the last 26 than in 10 times that length of time at any other epoch.
But 75 years are as but a day in the life of China.
With us here everything breath newness, aggression, positive energy—what the psychologist would call the rapid vibrations of the fatherhood principle in nature. With China all life tells forth ti story of age and enduring thing: cohibiting the slower vibrating motherhood principle. Seventy-five years are merely one lifetime to a Chinese. Call in your compra-dare, and he will tell you that his family has lived in Ningpo or "more far" for 76 generations, and if you goto his family home you li see the evidence of it. "He will lead you out to the grave of his grandfather, his great grand father, and unostentatiously will point to other smaller mounds representing a generati back. His conversi get close to him, will dwell upon ancestry fading far, for back into a remote past in a manner that we lively foreigners ean-not possibly conceive.
Then, in a national sense, 75 years is the full stretch that the native sons and daughters of California can boast. What a con-toast to the Chinese! For, stepping beyond this experimental republic of China, we may go back to the Manchus' to 1644, and then straight back to: the Epoch of the Five Dynasties, through the Ts'ing, the. Ming, the Yuan; through the 'T'ang, the Sui, the Chien, the Liang, the T'si and the Sung dynasty, 420 years after the Christ walked this earth. Even theb we have only just begun our may surpass all that the world There are 3,229,079 American-has ever known through ancient born in California, and the re-or modern history. mainder of the population comes from the four corners of the earth.
Around the great Pacific dwell most of the human race, and, though you in China are so hemmed few places on this planet can hope in by the present dispiriting state for. It is fitting, therefore, her of that country as to be unable to Sth anniversary to hope for her appreciate the changes in other that her share in the development sections of the oceanic basis, there of the Orient will be worthy of is no doubt that in the centuries her. to come the Pacific ocean will carry most of the world's cargo over its waters, Its harbours open the world's greatest resources, and Chinas one' of the moat inper-World's, wi great vow economic t~indeed, the last of
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