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are well aware
of the fact that their
people represents the only continuous
in the world which has
nationality i withstood the vicissitudes of three
thousand years. They Know that their jurisprudense, their polity, their philosophy are not materially different in the present age from what they were in the ages of Confucius ... and Aristotle. They remember that
their ancestors were as
acquainted with printing, with the use of gunpowder, and with many of the arts of civilization for centuries
before
before those arts became known in Europe; they have not forgotten
that their ancestors had established
a
vast Empire; had framed and
organized an enduring system of social and political life; had built great cities; and founded
a
widely extended commerce at a time when the ancestors of the English,
(whether Britons, Saxons, Danes,
Normans), had scarcely struggled
forth from mud and
misery.
... a matter for wonder that educated Chinese sometimes regard with a
mixture.