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November ultimo) I stated that the
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most competent judges inclined to believe that, at all
of the next
events in the course generation, the vast Empire of
China will be opened up by
sailways and telegraphs.
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occasion
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On the same.
gave some account of
my very interesting conversation
on this subject with Li Hung chang when he entertained me at m Tientoin in last September. I.
then wrote:- "We told me
a
among
"other
"other things, that he was
"
personally
strongly in favour of the extension
of telegraphs and railways throughout
"the Empire, but that he had to contend with much opposition
from the prejudices of the Country gentry and the literate. I encouraged his Excellency by remarking that, within the
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memory of men still alive, Electric Telegraphs had not been invented;
even in England,
England, the
while, even in
"country gentlemen and the literate" had formerly been generally-
opposed