Peking, with President Li Yuan-hung as spokesman, frequently indicates the second problem as the sole problem, or at.least as the primary problem. In_ this most. Chinese, with the Imperial tradition at the back of their minds, do the same. They think that the provinces ought to be accountable to Peking, but they forget that the infallible and semi-divine power which was predicated to the Emperor is not now vested in Peking's walls and palaces. The Government in Peking is now human, to say the Jeast, and as a human institution is no longer accountable solely to the Being with whom the Emperor communed once a year at the Temple of Fleaven, but to the provinees and the people also. Practically all radical reform movements in history started either at the top -or the bottom.
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