land of sympathy in China. But apart from that, I am constrained to say, Chinese appear devoid of anything like sympathy, excepting only that peculiar form of sympathy, known in psychology as the sympathy of numbers. Example, when supported by a majority, has a tremendous power over the Chinese mind. "But to appeal to the supposed human sympathies of a Chinese bey him to subdue his greediness, envy, cruelty or bitter feeling in favour of another, not his relative, is a vain endeavour.
in order to induce sympathy. The milk of human kindness is in China reserved for exclusive consumption within the bosom of the family. For a stranger, the typical Chinaman has no sympathy whatever, nor does he comprehend why he should be expected to have any such feeling.
Richly endowed as the Chinese are, as above remarked, with regard to the regulative, conservative and reproductive faculties, they are on the other hand very deficiently endowed in the matter of the representative and illustrative faculties. Imagination and fancy are almost unknown quantities in the furniture of a Chinese school boy's mind. Talk to a European boy of a horse: immediately there rises up in his brain the mind-picture of a horse. Speak to a Chinese school boy of a horse (ma); what rises up in his mind is the written character.
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