In an Occidental court an intelligent judge deals sympathetic cally but none the less firmly with such persons, They are common enough in every community. Many an_ unfortunate man, through business experiments, unwise innovations, or through what look like strokes of-a cruel fortune, gets his affairs into a frightful muddle. He tries to struggle out of the maze and only gets more entangled. In panic and despair he sees all the world, cruel and unrelenting, against him. In desperation he commits follies which bring him in contact with the law and is duly disciplined. He is embittered and is obsessed with the idea that he has not had a fair chance, that the world owes him much that has been denied him, that his rights are being trampled upon and that ho really owes nothing to anyone which anyone has the right to exact. When he comes before the law, therefore, charged with some grave offence, he is conscious of nothing but his rights and no amount of logic can impress upon him that he has any duties or that he owes the community anything for having failed to di charge them. An humane court, a3 the writer has already said, deals, sympathetically but none the less firmly with such cases. Fvery foreign ident in this country will realize that unhappy China is in precisely such a distracted state. As her affairs go from bad to worse, she feels more and more that she is the victim of fate, circumstances, malicious conspiracy, tyranny, or what you like. She becomes more and more clamorous for her rights as her conduct from day to day proves her less and. less worthy of them. She resents constraint and discipline with a growing bitterness. She cultivates a growing contempt for obligations, as they become more and more difficult to discharge, and desperately defies the world, in louder and louder tones, to take any measure designed to reform her affairs or to restore her sanity. In the reply to the Lincheng note, Dr. Koo voices this feeling in China
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