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teachers and lack of other resources, for there is a kind of
religious fervour 2mounting almost to fanaticism in the movement
to realise this ideal of a modernised China through western educa-
tion. Young China has not only thrown down the walls of the cities
and cut straight through the narrow tortuous streets of the old
towns, but it has also cut right through the old hoary traditions
and customs and exposed the nation to the quickening breeze of the
western scientific method. National salvation lies through this
knowledge which alone gives power, and material wealth. The old
system which made culture the primary aim is subordinated to an
unimportant position, for China believes she can live on this
ethical and cultural capital which has beenstored up during the
centuries and that the defect in her system can only be made good
by an exclusive attention to the means whereby she can be enriched
in the same way as merica has been.
For the first time in her history it seems that China has come
up against forces which she cannot tame or absorb into her system,
but to which she must entirely surrender, so seductive are the
promises which the new education makes. But perhaps the movement
is not so catastrophic as it appears on the surface.
that in China as elsewhere the old is always dying and the new
being born, but that there is no breach of continuity.
could not be born except of the old and the old gives evidence of
life, not of death by being transformed into the new.
Old things need not be therefore true
O brother men, nor yet the new
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