4.
mexhaustible resources is really not surprising. It is principally
traceable
to the universal Corr
-uption of the Governing officials, to the stubborn resistance of the educated classes to all reforms, to her consequent unpreparedness, and to the unconcealed contempt of Western nations and their peoples by the Chicage of the
better class:
этому
7. It is hardly likely that the
blind conservative mistincts of Chinese Rulers who have successfully opposed so efforts to open up the country and introduce European methods and inventions will be affected for any length of time by the recent désacters their Country
sustained.
has
8. The Chinese
8. The Chinese people
5.
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as
a whole
under the
are quite ignorant of the im- -portance and results of the
Campaign, and are false impression, spread by the authorities, that the in vasion of a portion of the Chinese Empire by the Pestilen- - tial" Japanese has been suc - - cessfully resisted.
9.
It is not likely that
"
or until
China can ever become powerful in the future until she has
undergone some rast political and social upheaval at all events her official system has been thoroughly
revolutionised. Another lesson will also have to be taught her, and should have been forcibly impressed
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