Show ARE WE INFERIOR TO THE CHINESE the ranks of 0 the defenders of 0 china are steadily swelling but nobody opposes the popular ideas of westerners Western moro more radically than ai M tic de file who gives an interesting description ot at the chinese in the 2 monde Blo Mod derne crne paris to milt him the chinese are the most advanced people in the world in M de s opinion the chinese system of 0 government li is the most liberal on oil earam every political flie fleetion tion may establish the their ir utopias under it the chinese a are IT able I 1 to 0 get along alone with a minimum of 0 govern government ment we W summarise sum marise marlAe lila his treatise as follows the chinese hold bold the most moat a advanced advance d ideas in that they abhor war and standing armies they believe in choosing officials tor for their talents and they honor old age 1 their I hear id ideal e a I 1 la Is justice while the european Uuro th thinks t aks that success which juz tIlles everything Is the criterion of 0 worth sentiment of some sort rules the european whose virtues virtue and vices are found in their vigor in ameilia Ame ilca reason rules lules the Chin chinaman arnam it Is 13 thought better to have hate a hundred hands working than to supersede them by one machine at worst the chinese are only momentarily menta rily eclipsed because they aliey hate machinery and its revolutionary influences fluen ces but in the long lonc sun lun this will assist then in pre preserving the balance between agriculture and the industries the great mass of 0 the chinese load lead peaceful useful lives they have all the virtues required for or family life and are arc happy in china ports we see the people dirty from work in the da time but in the evening they all bathe and put on clean clothes they are gay eay good natured and do not quarrel down to tile hie very lowest loviest they cultivate their minds better than any other people they know how to form associations and they all are hard workers the chinese are very hospitable 0 of patriotism cie as the european understands it the chinese know nothing but they are much a attached I 1 to their country on account ot of the rites customs and ancestral conditions with which they have grown up the wife la Is held in honor in chisim china and the mother stands highest in the fa family in ily A poor chinaman Is eager caper to earn mo money n ey but he hog has not the same earne passion tor for lucre which possesses the european their highest classes excel not by their riches but by their learning and great fortune lie will often hide it tor for the mandarins a have a way of ledu deducing cing wealth by progressive income taxes all chinese industries are beautiful and intensive and they are extremely practical when a good method Is found it Is followed ever arter after M de le denies that the chinaman Is cowardly by nature ile he quotes gen driere de lisle who told him that lie he never met more terrible enemies than the black flags yet the diack black flags took no pride in their feats 0 of f diring daring they regarded dod war as brutal and barbarous and a thing to lo be as harried ashamed of am M do de Gondo urille predicts tor for the chinese a glorious glorso us future lie he says E europe U rope will no doubt conquer C china in a its as rome home conquered greece cut but like the greeks the chinese will have their revenge they are the gardeners and operatives of the futural they are the meek mho esho will the earth the lace ace who will I 1 anew the western world after it has been used up by militarism and the tried mad race tor for wealth which has hag almeady nearly racked opt the american continent and at any rate cleared oft its forests and fauna r translated tor for the literary digest |