"I can promise you, Rayden, "that 1 shall not go Home and write a book," and she said that it had been far from her plans to give any lectures during her stay in China. But as she saw it, China was a land of 400 million people, with a civilization older than any, and the changing of the ideas of a country of the size and age of China was a stupendous task. But she felt that the British contribution in this task might be made through that gift which we have really, the political genius. The Chinese were artists, great in literature, surely as great a gift as that of political genius, but it was the latter which could give her greater aid in the present time giving something to the
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