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-" the alleged existence of Chinese Slavery
-His report is a very
in
able, full, and yet
concise summary
of the important, difficult, and hitherto little understood subject of
which it treats. It should be
carefully studied in connexion with the remarkable petition presented to the late Governor in 1879 by an influential section of the Chinese community in Hongkong, and with the learned Essay of Dr Eitel, which are both printed at pages 44-57 of the Correspondence
respecting
a Hongkong, presented to Parliament
in March, 1882.
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Moreover, if it is
desired to obtain a thorough grasp
of this subject in its true bearings, the official student should further make himself acquainted not only with the tenets of Confucius and Mencius, those ancient Legislators and Philosophers, whose laws and Ethics are still the living guides of
the Chinese, but also with the
principles of the old Roman
institution