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OTHER.
OUR CIVIL SERVICE WAS PARTLY INSPIRED BY REPORTS OF
UNCORRUPT ADMINISTRATORS IN CHINA WHO DISPENSED JUSTICE WITH
HUMANITY. AND, TO TAKE BUT ONE EXAMPLE, I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE IN
CHINA QUITE AS MUCH AS PEOPLE IN THE WEST, WERE PROFOUNDLY
AFFECTED BY THE INSIGHTS OF CHARLES DARWIN.
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12. ON WEDNESDAY YOU WILL VISIT THE BRITISH MUSEUM WHERE ANOTHER
19TH CENTURY THINKER KARL MARX - SPENT SO MUCH OF HIS TIME.
HAD YOUR VISIT BEEN LONGER I WOULD HAVE INSISTED THAT YOU ALSO
VISIT KIRKCALDY, THE BIRTHPLACE OF ADAM SMITH. MANY PEOPLE KNOW
THAT MARX OFTEN COMPLAINED THAT HE WAS NO MARXIST. FEWER KNOW
THAT IN 'THE WEALTH OF NATIONS' THAT ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC
BEHAVIOUR WHICH MARX TOO REGARDED AS A CLASSIC - THERE IS NO
MENTION OF CAPITALISM AS SUCH. THERE IS, I BELIEVE, A MORAL
HERE: WE MUST USE IDEOLOGY TO ARTICULATE OUR IDEALS, BUT NOT TO
STIFLE CREATIVITY.
13. WE BOTH DERIVE INSPIRATION FROM THE PAST THAT IS A SHARED
STRENGTH OF BRITISH AND CHINESE LOVE OF HISTORY. BUT WE ALSO
LOOK TO THE FUTURE AND TO THE YOUNG FOR INSPIRATION.
YOU, MR
GENERAL- SECRETARY, VICE-PREMIER LI AND PROFESSOR FEI, HAVE ALL
TAKEN FORWARD THE GREAT CHINESE TRADITION OF TEACHING AND CONCERN
FOR THE MORAL AND MATERIAL WELFARE OF YOUNG PEOPLE. I HOPE THAT
THOSE IN BRITAIN AND CHINA WHO ADMINISTER THE NEW EDUCATIONAL
TRUST SET UP TODAY WILL REMEMBER, AS ANOTHER GREAT CHINESE LEADER
(MAO) PUT IT, THAT YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE BLOOM OF LIFE ARE 'LIKE
THE SUN AT EIGHT OR NINE IN THE MORNING', AND THAT OUR HOPE MUST
BE PLACED IN THEM. RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO COUNTRIES ARE ALSO
IN THE BLOOM OF THEIR LIFE, LIKE TREES THAT BLOOM YEAR AFTER
YEAR, WITH MORE FLOWERS EACH SUCCESSIVE YEAR.
14. THIS YEAR, HOWEVER, SEES EXCEPTIONAL BLOOMS, WITH YOUR VISIT
TO US AND THE HISTORIC OCCASION THIS OCTOBER WHEN HER MAJESTY THE
QUEEN MAKES HER STATE VISIT TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
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