Letters From a Chinese Official; Being An Eastern View of Western Civilization
Letters From a Chinese Official; Being An Eastern View of Western Civilization
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There is, I am aware, a party which hopes to bring to bear against these the brute and overwhelming force of the Mass. But such a remedy, even if it were practicable, does not commend itself to my judgment; for the Mass in your society is itself an Interest. The machinery which you have provided appears to aim at bringing together in a cockpit egotistic forces bent upon private goods, in order that they may arrive, by dint of sheer fighting, at a result which shall represent the good of the who...le. It is perhaps the inveterate respect, in* herent in every Chinaman, for the authority of morality and reason, that prevents me from re- garding such a procedure with the enthusiasm or even the toleration which it seems commonly to arouse among yourselves. When problems of [46] LETTERS FROM A CHINESE OFFICIAL such vast importance have devolved upon, and must be assumed by, a Government, I cannot but think that some better means might have been devised for interesting in their solution the best talent of the nation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is, I am aware, a party which hopes to bring to bear against these the brute and overwhelming force of the Mass. But such a remedy, even if it were practicable, does not commend itself to my judgment; for the Mass in your society is itself an Interest. The machinery which you have provided appears to aim at bringing together in a cockpit egotistic forces bent upon private goods, in order that they may arrive, by dint of sheer fighting, at a result which shall represent the good of the who...le. It is perhaps the inveterate respect, in* herent in every Chinaman, for the authority of morality and reason, that prevents me from re- garding such a procedure with the enthusiasm or even the toleration which it seems commonly to arouse among yourselves. When problems of [46] LETTERS FROM A CHINESE OFFICIAL such vast importance have devolved upon, and must be assumed by, a Government, I cannot but think that some better means might have been devised for interesting in their solution the best talent of the nation.
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