"Nontit-Cuiwa Dany New:
Si%,—Some months ago 1 wrote concerning group of Municipal coolies who during the noon hour vere clustered around a reader of one of their ancient books. I have to-diy to mention a very similar and equally pleasant thing. Chauffeurs while they are waiting frequently read books. I recently observed "one who was reading a wwial version of the Chinese it as a sign of the which indeed on the surface adopt an anti-classical attitude, but, I believe in reality. The Classies are still worthy of veneration. 1 do not believe they can be scrapped by those "clothed with a little brief authority", Their teaching is ingrained into the hearts of the Chinese people that they cannot suddenly be expelled overnight. A. Roman poet says you cannot expel nature with"a fork; it will come back again. So also the Classics will one day come to their own once more, not indeed to the position they' had in pre-revolution days, but to more sane appreciation of their Teal value og embodying a valuable moral and. spiritual inheritance which should not be lightly cast aside, T am, ete, Shanghai, Dee. 6, 1927.
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