'Again, look at' Poland. She- has} been a subject nation for more than originated.
Those societies flourish. {Leen lao Sipe pest greatly during the: time of, th Manchu emperor Kang Hsi. "Fror rel the time that the emperor Shun Chih|presumably meant to show how] shattered the Ming Dynasty and [Nationalism lived through these} Dean to rule in China, the fast societies "and perished when they' and patriotic leaders of the Min, {were suppressed. At the time' this opposed him in eve quarter, and [was written Dr. Sun was €or ip to the time of the frst year of|that he was the head of a mi Vang Lis, there we till those who|secret society that gave him control the European war che recovered her status, and has come to be a second or third class power. in Europe. Speaking comparatively then, we seo that China, Judes, India. and Poland are all alike conquered countries. But how is it that these foreign nations have preserved the spirit of] have lost~our idea of nationality. makes men seek to preserve th From this we can learn why it is we Nationalism is the precious Ee) [Buitorial Note:—The sum of alli own continuity. For instance, wi these strange perversions of fact is|does a. scholar use" by which to that. nationalism survives through corn his living. It) is the pen in the barbarous use of might in the his hand which is the instrument fon of others, which is hardly by which he lives, Nationalism ig subj consistent with Dr. Sun's argument the implement by which mien are in favour of Nation: ism elsewhere). able to exist.
It this principle does not survive, when cos /mopolitanism is an accomplished that isthe geamn thy, lat fact we stall nob he Bie fo, lad Ce cee see ct
without a country for two thousand ancient times it was said in China, years, yet their nationalist spirit) "The three Miao tribes hide away Temnaln, whilst we Chinese who were in the three inaccessible places." remain lo we Chinen wh rein he hee nas hundred. years ago, have entire! them to the [ost it. 'To examine this question "yl borders of Yunnan and Kueichow, 's and to-day they are almost extiucl, ike diagnosing a man' illness. No These Miao tribes were the matter what disease he itis of aborigines of China, Iam afraid Tecause'his constitution i unsound, that in fature our people will be ak beennge previous tos ines in similar cireumatanees to the three Miao tribes, nese. China. before" she was "confguered, already had within her the Origin of the Chinese Beginnings of scase, therefore a3 With regard to the origin of our Chinese nation, some say that our cease of this disease hag been found, people first came. from the West, Goring there few thousand years of crossing the Te'ung Ling. to the Chinese history, to be the same as in|Mien Shan, and: having. paseed the imperialistic countries uch as through Turkestan, came to the England at the present time, -and|basin of the Yellow River: Accord Russia before her Revelation; both] ing to statements about the origin being the strongest nations in thelof Chinese civilization, this theory world. At present the imperial sm|ia- most probably correct. of Britain is still rampant. Former- Chinese civilization is not from ly our: Chinese imperialism was per- outside, but is native'to the country, hapa: more evident than' that of then according to' natural law, Britain, The? two countries of ought to have originated in the Britain and Russia have now a valley ofthe Pearl River and not in vanced a new idea which is much] the valley of the Yellow River; Wocated: by the literary class. because the climate' of the Pearl What is this: idea?.
It is opposed] River valley is equable, fruit tal in to Nationalism, because national 1m production, and' people can easily {is too narrow in its scope. Wit get their living there; it is just the tering into detail, it is simply place where civilization: ought to Cosmopolitanism. England' as she aot 28 the] have begun., But when we study hay history we find that the emperors viously), with the: youth of" China Yaovand Shan, Vu and Tangy Wen who'advocate the new: culture; are} Wing and Wu Wang were' all born all in favour of this principle a1 oppose nationalisms. I" often sere 4 them in the valley of the Pearl many young: Chinese three principles of th ant il, Dag the' north-west, and* not' one of Han Dynasty, tha valley of the Poatl River was are not im accordance' with th stilt occupied by wild tribes, there modern world movements; newest' and best' iden is this' puo: fore Chinesoscivilfzation is from the northwest) from. ¢orelgn countries, itanisnt,. Now: after this principle good or-not?. is 'The Chines say the' people are the good, how is it: that-no: sooner' had D&tlves: of the: county, Foreigners Ohinabeen conquered, than the id say. however; that in ancient times
world conception isthe: same asthe den-of- "The: Whole: Empire" which deatroved tio rationalism wns destroyed, This tribe- of: people who lived in fibe of, people who uvad aboriginal was advocated. over two. thousand bes, or. civilized them, thus years age in China: becoming: the: modern Chinese tion, According to the law of Nae World Empire tural Bvolution, the fittest: survive When we examine thi principle the unfit are destroyed; the superior wer must atk if it is really a good prevail and. the inferior one tone. In theory we cannot say it 's eliminated, What after all is our bad. Formerly, the Manchus erossed nation: is it @ euperlor one or on the frontier and our country. was] inferior one mit Int to survive oF subjugated because many. of tho} not?
Tf it iv said: that our nation Chinese scholars had this idea of will be destroyed or will degenerate, cormopolitanism. K'ang Hai was. 'a naturally none of us will agree; we man who advocated this principl all wish our own people to live wat Shun was one ofthe and. thrive. This fa. the: natural ind Wen Wang desire of all men, But our nation Yesisted, x0 st that period China had {of all of China's armies.) nationalism, even though the country Wentern." These] to-day not been entirely subdued by the Man-hus, After the last year of K'ang Msi, the survivors of the Ming wore gradually destroyed. Amonizst there, were some full of nationalistic fens, who realived that in any serious encounter they would be unable to cope with the Manchus, und seeing the social conditions, devised methods of forming secret societies. Theiy outlook was extensive, their ideas mature, and they saw clearly the condition of the people. Just when they had. Grganined numerous parties, K'ang] Hu held the examinations in science und literature, and he netted into the service of the Manchus Government almost all the best scholars of the!
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