This scurvy, shrinking attitude tog men at best in a questionable frame of mind was not the-only instance of a curious wrongheadedness. There is apparently a weathercock defect in the Chinese mind which leads to confusion, absurdity, and worse. The imagined horrors of war would appear to induce a species of mind palsy among a people in normal times justly renowned for hard-headness of view and some tenacity of purpose. May be this is a phase symptomatic of these bad, divided times. In the less complicated past the hour has not generally failed to produce the man. One prays for the advent of something or somebody to assist people, inherently fatalistic, but now in apparent danger of losing confidence in themselves and of becoming an entire prey to caisse: faire, which has been the death of many peoples, and not a few hopes.
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