But whatever may be said for native estimates of near personalities ander. the compelling contagion a. wellkengineered national kowtow, oF the excusable generosity abroad of foreign appraisers who have never reen the Chinese at hire stilt less can be said for tke estimate of Sun
to the April Bulletin f the National Yatsen contributed as an eliterial Gestion Council by Dr. Hodgkin, Writer who for a period of some years albeit in Mancha days, knew China fiom a long woy inside, The article ey Fears to be carefully ealculated tup to the passing Chinese phase of "Sun"-worship above relea~ Fed to, and I credit. the writer with deeper insight into the personalities of yom he writes than that which appears in this ¢.tiele, which consists of a rough exess-sect'sr. of native opinion about Dr Sun, pavatpanegyric figure. similarly eulyjiced execrated at once, and now also one to his cecount—Lenin, Dr, Helgkin Jes ovr tently wr-tsen thiy article in an ex cathedra eapacity as a well-known apostle modernism in a recognized modernist monthly, When socially attractive political criminals, ike Lenin and Sun Yat-sen are winning absolute power over large sheep-like communities by thefe mere wits, holding it by terrorism, and engaging inven intensive world-wide effort to encourage communist adventurers to go and do likewise in other lands it in a disquieting spectacle to find! influential and representative teachers prepared to mislabel the Matrx-San poison in the style of this ar-_ tide. Dr. Hodgkin says: "A great man has fallen;" but the qualities, undoubtedly possessed by Sun, in which Dr. Hodgkin sees. greatness, not convincing: "This man, above all contemporary Chinese, had the power to kindle enthusiasm and to win devotion. Others may shave been cleverer, more far-sech more prudent. Dr. Sun was par excellence a leader of men—Certain-Jy Dr. Sun had—that pers snetism which is always with great leadership—Our generation has seen another leader of men who kad many similar qualities. In Leinin we see a man possessed by an iden, with courage and self-sacrifice, a lover of the people. Of him it in said: "a quality that helped to win Lenin a lasting place in the hearts of the Russian people was his genuine fondness for meeting and talking with ordinary folks. In this there was no question of pretence, or of striving for populaity—He possessed the rather rare Kerack—of being able to win the confidence of a plain man." All of which jo only to ray that both Lenin and Sun were postmasters in the mercurial power of fine talk to put glittering utopia in the window with grinning corpses and red rain in the shop.
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