When Ch'ien Lung declared that; the West had nothing worth giving' to China he thought least Of all that western philosophy was worth the consideration of a Chinese.
Mr. Russel's continual insistence! that the Western nations are but a band of robbers secking to exploit China will be taken by Lis countrymen with that good natured toler-! ance they ever exhibit towards the crank and the fanatic.
But it may be all taken seriously by the Chinese. Impressionable youth will read these pages and it may well be that Bertrand Russell, the pacifist, has sown' the dragon's teeth that will produce an unexpected crop of war and misery. Fo one of the hallucinations that haunt Mr. Russell's mind is that_ the hinese are men of peace. Their history is as warlike as that of Rome and but for their good sense, which will perhaps enable them to discount the writer's exaggerations, we would say that this is a per ni vious book. As it is we will say it is like the figs seen by the ancient Jewish prophet: the good—that is the quotations from well known sinologues—very good, and the bad—Mr. Russell's own opinions—very bad.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.