must have sprung the visionary population of ancient Rome" _
These riado myria en_ the thing have į turned out mere buckram men_ has been tried and it has failed, and it's failure should at least serve to convince us that we have hitherto pastly mistaken the genius of this people __ The last ten years have told us more of the Chinese than the century preceding it toe now-know that there is not so much plunder; much irresponsible tyranny and not so much as we once supposed ; Ad and that on the whole this Government is not so bad a Government We might have known a priori that Government depending mainly upon a high moral principle for its existence, and scarcely supported by appliances of force, could not possibly be the oppressive tyranny, political and social, which we were once taught to consider it_ that we now know that it is not, and it is something very much better than a bast post Engine of plunder and confiscation __
A way further we have learnt though peculiar scheme of authority, it governs happily adapted to the people it, and the people are adapted to it __ and I am glad that Hongkong has some more substantial prospects than those arising from the immigration of settlers, who are expected to leave their country through sentimental discontent with the Government under which their forefathers lived and died for a thousand generations _ accepting for the nonce, their chronology _
Above all, the last ten years have taught us this great lesson - that there is no people of whom history keeps the Record, so tied down to fatherland by every bond social and sacred as the Chinese_ By inborn love-by instinctive pride _ by bias of education_ by inherited prejudice - by centuries of celestial associations and isolation - by caste and clanship- by their literature and traditions __ by the roof
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