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all these will fall, and he who steps in with the higher incentives to virtue will find it a hard task to permade

his hearers that what Government

has pronounced normal and

pronos

inevitable is in truth but a removable

a

and that what in such

deformity,

brigh quarter has been proclaimed

an

to be a social necessity is not ace individual necessity also

8 . I am persuaded that us amount of rivenne could compensate. Government for the loss of prestige by ito

which would be occasioned

inverting into a source of gain and

thereby giving

induly

its sanction to

considered

to any

lazy

the

intelligent classes of the community

to be purely

and intrinsically picions.

That

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& gambling bears the character among educated chinese there

carr

in

be small question. By their criminal code the Keeper of a gaming shop- liable to be punished with eighty blows, and to forfect his house to

the crown; and

though

we know

that in chinese cities, through the venality of the officials, there is selsom murch difficulty in finding houses of this deveription, yet the

stigma of illegality and immorality is retained. In Staunton's perral

laws of China appears the note = "There is probably

sppears the following

novice

to which the chinese are more

addicted than that of

generally

gaming

but it is

is generally speaking

the vice of the lower classes;

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