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they would in the course of time have come to be regarded, no doubt, as great works, but still in some degree in the light of curiosties-in fact, much as scholars regar1 the writings of SPENSER in the present day.
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history in the broad mass, cannot but be Manhood is less degraded when told "we, academic and unsatisfactory. It is easier being stronger, mean to rule vou as we to be a partisan than a philosopher, and think best for us and you." the former is always more popular. The less shame in being shown that one's phys- fi.st aspect of such a discussion that meets ique is inadequate than in being told that Is is worth noticing that an attempt was
the mental eye of a student of history one's intellect is inferior. This is the point made in Korea as far back as the tenth familiar with the effects and non-effects of of view that sent the martyrs to their century to reduce Chinese to a phonetic the contact of civilization and barbarism, system-the Buddhists
deaths. then of ideals and practices, evakes memories Manila Times cited India, with its " having
It scarcely needs proving. The introduced a written script of Chinese with of the school laboratory. Those chetical allen and discontented," as a proof that people a perfect alphabet of twenty-five letters, experiments that occasionally would which is indeed in use for business purposes
Mr. HUGH CLIFFORD's opinion was wrong, and the like to the present day; but it has
so it is not unfair to point to America to show that the Constitution is waste-paper never been accepted by the educated classes, who, look upon it, as is pointed out by Sir
that its equality and inalienable rights are as preserved only by a few sentimentals, and WALTER HILLIER, as suitable only for
much disregarded as the average pulpit ora- women and children. That writer states that one effect of the use of this phonetic
future is no greater success than that of the tion. If the Philippines Republic of the writing has been to stereotype the ancient
Unit 1 States, as viewed from the platform pronunciation of Chinese words, which has
of the lovers of truth and liberty, then the been lost in China itself, and that the
less hustling language of the Koreans contains a large admixture of Chinese words pronounced in the old way.
From this we may infer that had an alphabetical system been adopted in China itself, the spelling of a large number of words would have varied so much in different provinces that actually new languages would have arisen, in place of merely the various dialects which now exist. Thus we should have had different languages in China from a common origin, just ng there are different tongues in Europe derived in the main from Latin.
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nearly blew up the enthusiastic messer, AS his less scientific contemporaries called him, The
same may be said of most efforts: consciously directed, to civilize a people of vastly different.constitution to the volunteer reformers. The experimenters in China have met with both smells and explosions, and ne fusion can be said t have so far
messers, who have been come out right". So with India and Africa, aud-tell it not in the Munila Times-satisfied to retain monarchies and other old- fashioned things and ways, need never feel with America. Mr. Hugh Clifford and his kind are "messers," as are the American chagrin for their own backwardness.
If flaunters of "the inalienable rights of have become Mahatmas, the unregenerate none preached Buddhism but those who man," only in a less degree. To none o
would be saved a good deal of wordy nuis- then does success come as it is dreamed of. But on the whole and if this be partisau stitution in the world are like others less ance. The people with the noblest Con- ship, we cannot help it-we are incline gifte l, still wandering through an imperfect to think that Mr. HeGH CLIFFORD has a
world of illusion and disappointment, Пto- better case than his critics have. Manila Times particularly, makes answer inpia is not yet, not even in the wide area between San Francisco and New York. Wa a manner fatally susceptible to analysis. miss it less, however, in the places where it
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With such new languages there would be To follow the advice of British critics of \ ja not the subject of so much cant and rant-
American a Iministration in the Philippines,ing. Wise Americans like Mr. '. L. CLEMENS
"we would need," urges that journal, "to
renounce our traditions, strangle our Constitution, and do violence to every political principle fundamental in r national life. But yes, and has that never been done? In America the tradition
new ideas, and with the fresh views, & much greater tendency to political separa- tion than has been the case. There is nothing which makes more for a common nationality than a common language, and it has been fortunate for Chinese unity that she has been able to preserve ut all events one written language throughout | that her vast Empire.
(Daily Press, March 6th.) Mr. HUGH CLIFFORD, whose name has been made more familiar in Hongkong | lately by his promotion to Ceylon, wrote for MacMillan's Magazine an article discussing and criticizing the American policy in the Philippines. Manila Ameri- caos do not seem to have appreciated the article. Mr. CLIFFORD'S view was that it was foolish of the people of the United States to attempt or hope to establish among a Malay people a republican form of governinent, with republican ideals. He declared that
tbe Americans in the Philippines were chasing a phantom hope which flew in the face of all experience, and that the end must be defeat and disa-ter." ITe
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They do, however, blush for their compa the ideal. That was only to be expected.
triots who persist in calling outside atten- tion to it by their Peckaniffian protestations.
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PRECAUTION.
ali men Were created equal was renouure i some time ago; at least, so the Chinese and Negroes tell us. In America the Constitution is often strangle 1, so good PECKSNIFFIAN PROTESTATIONS | Americans have dec'ared.
And in A nerwca,
(Dai'y Press, 7th March.) fundamental politics have suffered violence Fielding and other writers have given us frequently, unless American newspapers do | vivid impressions of the medical men of the le, Hence there is something strangely I past; of how, by quoting Gates and Para- unconvincing in passages such as this:
CELSUS and too often, we
fear, such We are not yet ready to desert all those authorities as ABRACADABRA, they managed glorious doctrines embodied in our Constitution and our
to impress an ignorant and credulous public I eclaration of Independence, or to with their learning and ability. Happily forswear that divine principle blaz med forth the day of such arrant charlatans is past in the torch of the Goddess of Liberty. humbler phras, the tail is not big enough The medical men do really know something. to wag the dog. We are not prepared to let
of disease and medicine, as well as of Latin, the Philippines run the United States, and while the public is less ignorant and (in even at the risk of making a failure of our some ways) less credulous. The doctors experiment in grafting a republican form and their patients, indeed, know so much of government on an oriental people, we shall nowadays that still hold fast to our heritage and history symptoms of mental over-feeding. In the occasionally as a nation and to those principles of popular government of which
of the patient, it is the little learning" that “is a dangerous thing." The ponents. We are not yet ready to assassinate the subame injunction imposed upon us way men and women, espacially in the Far people, and for the people, shall not perish from professional a lvie is most alarming. The see that government of the people, by the East, dose themselves with drugs without
the earth.“
waters of Jordan, parabling temperance and cleanliness, are not enough for them; they put great faith in the rivers of Abans and Poarpar, meaning the bottles they buy at the chemists, or pass from one to another. In the case of our modern professional men,
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further expressed opinion that the only reasonable policy in such a place and with such conditions would be to hold and administer the country at a
That sort of thing sounds fine, but, as our Colony pure and simple. One American cousins say, "it cuts no ie." It that critic of the article admits that this would | Wessed formula “ goverament of, by, and be easier to do than what they are attempt for the people" means anything, menas ing, by which we feel inclined to read that that every distinct people shall follow its he means also it would be more expedient | own
preferences, and the fandament il į we are almost tempted sometimes to think and practicable; but there are reasons why policy of America, as modernly illustrated, that too much learning has made them he should denounce and repudiate the 18 tå interfere like other Imperialistic ¦ mad. We have often called attention to CLIFFORD system of governing Malays. uations with national preferences. Though the neurotic alarum of These reasons
the Lancet, a are, we shall try to | tbis unctuous critic does not realize it, it is, journal which is enough to drive a suscep- indicate, mainly of the nature of shil in essence less tyrannical to conquer and › tible laity to wholesale suicide, in order to, -boleths; but first it is convenient to rule a people than to conquer and force a | escape the countless parils that omniscient point out how much handicapped is the people to tule themselves on the e miqu ror's | organ so glibly pourtrays. This and other impartial and unbiassed mind that seeks pattern. Que
is injury; the other is manifestations of monomania, which we to contemplate such a question. It is s
injury plus insult.
It is transparent ( may dub microbe-mania, may generally be much more easy to side either with Mr. hypocrisy to say to any people, HUGH CLIFFORD or with the Manila Times, being kind and toleraat, will leave you to telligent citizen who avoids excuses either we | passed (with a deprecatory shrug by the in- because the really impartial outlook, as rule yourselves as s on as you show signs physical or mental-for panic is as deadly exemplified in the case of a student of of knowing how to do so in our way."
as potations. Occasionally, however, the
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