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Show But There Will Be No More Boxer Uprising in That Empire Chicago, Feb. 15. The awakening of. China Is. a myth, according to Pro-, Pro-, fessor Edward A. Ross, of the University Univer-sity of Wisconsin, who spoke before the City club yestoraay. "China, with false reliance and with more fear than respect of western west-ern institutions, Is not progressing with the rapidity that is generally believed," be-lieved," said the speaker, who has penetrated the interior of the mysterious myster-ious country to within 200 miles of ThibeL "Neither this generation nor the next will see the vaunted progress that has been attribute, to the Chinese," Chi-nese," Professor Ross declares. "China is not seeking inspiration from the west." Professor Ross assorted. assort-ed. "Among other things, Its great area precludes Immediate westernization. westerniza-tion. It Is Impossible that iuoJern Ideas can permeate so vast a territory in a ehort-time-.- "There Is little fear of another such demonstration against. (foreigners ,as the- Boxcr-jrebelHon.-'Iji that "c3ii flic t; tho Chinese learned that all Occidentals Occiden-tals were not like the missionaries who had been sent to their country. The missionaries suffered. The soldiers sol-diers fought. "I think less of the work of conversation con-versation to Christianity accomplished by the European and American missionaries mis-sionaries than I do of the Introduction Introduc-tion of new ideas and reforms.' |