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the finest exponent of the view that happiness depends on
material prosperity....... They have one model and one only,
the U.S.A.
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gold, wealth, in fact everything that
the United States stands for to-day in the Economic world -
is the lode-star of Young China to-day."
There are at present 2,500 Chinese students in the
United States, and less than 250 in Gt. Britain. Not only
was the whole of the American Boxer Indemnity devoted to
Education, but it was supplemented by large sume from pri-
vate funds for Health and Medical Services which justly
earned the gratitude of China and the admiration of the
world. The Hongkong University itself owes a debt of grati-
tude to the Rockefeller Foundation for the endowment of a
Chair in the Medical Faculty.
Gt. Britain on the other hand has been content to
leave chiefly to the Missionaries the maintenance of her
influence and prestige. She has failed to realise that
what the intelligentsia of China want is modern science and
not Western religion. The bulk of the British Boxer Indem-
nity is to be devoted to Railways, and only a comparatively
insignificant sum is to be assigned to the Hongkong Univer-
sity.
says Prof. Faster
The general attitude of the British towards education
in China is very well illustrated in Shanghai. Although
Shanghai is or was an International Settlement, its adminis-
tration by general consent and approval was very largely in the hands of the British merchants. In this vast town until quite recently there was no Director of Education,
and the total sum spent annually on education was 400,000
taels, the greater portion of this being spent on non-Chin-
ese schools. Yet in the same town 125,000 taels per annum
were spent in maintaining the Municipal Orchestra.
Seeing
that the Chinese are most anxious for western knowledge and
willing to pay for it through taxes, it seems that an excel ent opportunity was lost in giving that education in a British atmosphere, when its value in the pioneering sense