When and where Tam mistaken T will not lack the fairness to admit it, Ultimate wisdom and the ruth about Republic of China" does not reside in any one Philosophy, and only a particularly vain and presumptions poseur would Tay" claim to possession of the "ruth" about anything.
Whatever you have said or may fay 10, the fatare about inconsistency be quite certain that shall be more grateful for your disapproval than your approbation. I count it a distinction to differ from you upon almost any Public controversy, the greater the difference the better I shall like it, for you have done more than any other person or agency in, your region to bring about Chinese hatred and distrust of, Britons and the ruination of British trade.
In_conelusion I note you quote Mr. Bitd on the Canton Concession to refute my statements on the "sand bar myth".
In this con nection it is engaging to learn (I hadn't read it before) that houses built on a water-logged "unhealthful sand bar is as the myth understood abroad, were plagued after erection by white ante and friends of mine will be greatly int terested ina white ant that "defied coal tar, carbolic acid and all other foreign appliances", and by reason of thole alleged habitat seemed also But Mr.
Bitd re others call it a "sand bai is, of course, a great difference bee tween these two substances, It doos not seem possible that it could have doen entirely one or the other and yet create such confusion among constituted authorities, who appear to contradict each other without much outside aid.
Tam, ete"
0. D. Rasmussen,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.