. The fight for the republic in China. A MUMMKKS. K_LABOKATJK FESTIVALS OcCUK IN ChINA IX Spring and Autumn to Celebrate the FruitfulnessOF the Earth, Every Temple and Every Village Hav-ing Its Own Celebration. Toilers of the Plain. Country Produce Being Hauled TO the City . REPUBLIC IN CHINA 75 of the armed conquest of the islands fifteen hundredyears ago, precluded centralizating measures beingtaken because the Throne, relying on the virtues ofDivine Ancestors rather than on any well-articulatedpoHtical theory, was weak in all except certain quasi-sacerdotal qualities, and forced to


. The fight for the republic in China. A MUMMKKS. K_LABOKATJK FESTIVALS OcCUK IN ChINA IX Spring and Autumn to Celebrate the FruitfulnessOF the Earth, Every Temple and Every Village Hav-ing Its Own Celebration. Toilers of the Plain. Country Produce Being Hauled TO the City . REPUBLIC IN CHINA 75 of the armed conquest of the islands fifteen hundredyears ago, precluded centralizating measures beingtaken because the Throne, relying on the virtues ofDivine Ancestors rather than on any well-articulatedpoHtical theory, was weak in all except certain quasi-sacerdotal qualities, and forced to rely on great chief-tains for the execution of its mandates as well as for itsdefence. The military title of barbarian-conqueringgeneral, which was first conferred on a great clan leadereight centuries ago, was a natural enough developmentwhen we remember that the autochthonous races wereeven then not yet pushed out of the main island, andwere still battling with the advancing tide of Japanesecivilization which was itself composed of several rivalstreams coming from the Asiatic mainland and from theMalayan archipelagoes. This armed settlement satur-ates Japanese history and is responsible for the unend-ing loca


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