Of course, there are those who will suggest that in China, unity' in possible because all the people are the same, while in Europe unity 15] impossible over wide areas and Large populations because the! people are different. Is not the homogeneity of the Chinese people largely a matter of ignorance of the ethnology of these hundreds. of millions? We do know about} the different races outside the wall and of the aborigines of the South. These, one tends to cunt because of their numerical inferiority compared with the] Chinese who inhabi the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys, Yer are all the Chinese within these valleys the same? Is a Kiangsu man the same asa! Hard-faced Szechuen hidemonger? One Hupeh man? Ts a Shanti giant of the same stock as "feminate personage from the]
joochow area?
Ts a semiticallynosed merchant from this region the same as a hard-faced Szechuer hidemonger? One has so little science to go by, that he must his eyes and his eyes tell him that there are as many differences among the Chinese, provine by province, city by city, there are among Europeans. Then ore moves southward, beyond Yangtze into. Chekiang, Fal Kuangtung,—Kuangs! with together different 'Who ray that the Chibliite, of' the high white forehead and the hairy!
for instance, is the same as the!
man like Sun Hung-diminutive, energetic, fiery' Cantonese. Whenever one finds' Cantonese who is tall and like a northerner, it is generally to be! found that his ancestors migrated to Canton from Honan or Shen: er one of the other northern provinces, just as so many of the genuine Chinese of Yunnan came} from Kiangsu, not so many] hundreds of years ago.
The Undeveloped Consciousness The purpose of this article is not to enter into any pseudonithropology, for with so little exact information at __one's command, it is impossible to] dogmatize on these matters. Ther ix, however, room for an analysis of the causes which make impossible for political unity to} come to China at the present time. We have already suggested three causes; the area of the country, the hugeness of the population, and the hetrogencousness of the population. We vow come to the fourth cause, namely, the undeveloped national consciousness of the people.
Nationalism, as it has developed during the latter "part of the 19th century, is tgeist, the of a people, was one of those philosophic stupidities which caught the imagination of intellectually sluggish era, National destinies became so fierce that} even the tiniest states developed chauvinists who spoke of the importance of their petty kingdoms, as though it mattered to] the whole of "humanity that few feet of Macedonia belonged to one small nation or another.
The last war was the sacrifice of mankind "on the altar nationalistic meglomania. _° The wwe of Nations, the Locaroo!
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