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and in no systematical manner. Thus on the one hand they
could not lead the masses in revolutionary movements, end
on the other they had no unity among themselves. consequence our revolutionary influence gradualy faded away and the revolution of the San Hoi year was bound to result
in a failure.
The so-
"Secondly, we failed in our revolution in the San Hoi
year for having no revolutionary forces and no energetic
troops who would fight for a definite purpose.
called revolutionary troops at that time were only the
people's troops in different districts and the troops that
were left by the Tsing Government. They had never been
trained for any definite purpose, not had they any spirit
of sacrifice. They were far from being qualified to work
in conjunction with the people as the forces of the people.
Striving to promote a revolution with such purposeless troops, naturally we could not succeed.
"Thirdly, in the San Hoi year the masses had no thorough
conception of the meaning of revolution, nor did they
realize its objects. Most of them thought that the object
of revolution was merely to overthrow the Tsing Dynasty,
and that revolution would be definitely accomplished on
its overthrow. They did not know that the important mean-
ing and object of revolution was to secure freedom and equality for China, and that they should continue to exert
themselves to support the revolution even after the over-
throw of the Tsing Goverment to suppress the militarists,
old officials and all re-actionaries. Therefore the
revolution in the San Hoi year ended in failure.
"Fourthly, the Chinese revolutionary movements at that
time were entirely unaided. We did not know how to unite
ourselves with the other oppressed races and classes in
the world. It was one of the great causes of our failure
that we Chinese fought unaided against the Imperialists throughout the world.
"Now