You must be thinking that I have noticed nothing but factories since I arrived "in China, But I mention them merely as an example of the changes T have seen. Other changes T have seen, some not so cheerful from my point of view—the decline in our cotton trade—and some very cheerful from any point of view. In this T am referring especially to the growing national pride in China, which impresses me as being a healthy and manly pride—not the product of egotism, or ignorance, oF conceit, as the old feeling of Chinese superiority used to be accused of being; but the product of an increas~ ingly healthy official and private life, and steadily growing strength, physi cally, politically, and financially. 1 am sure my Chinese friends will not take it amiss when I say that T regard the gradual disappearance of that widespread attitude, a mixture of inferiority and contempt, amongst Chinese towards foreigners, and its substitution by a growing healthy national patriotism, as one of the most admirable developments in the last decade. China is becoming young again, and throwing off the Shackles of "age and the so-called wisdom that comes with age and though some of the results of this outburst of youthful energy are childish, it is a stage through which China must pass if she is to grow to full and healthy manhood.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.