The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . ,% i. IN SIIANTMIAI. with impunity. For no sane Chinaman wouhl ever (heam ,,|noticing or commenting upon it, altliough he is invariably walk in the gutters or the road. All one to him, iiowever, itis of no consequence; he would and perhaps does the same, andhis most venerated and exemplary father did so before him andlikewise his forefathers who were all good men and cannot he helped, so it must be endured. And no one disputesit, except the boorish and irreverent foreign devil (fan-ciuai)who was born with such despicab
The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . ,% i. IN SIIANTMIAI. with impunity. For no sane Chinaman wouhl ever (heam ,,|noticing or commenting upon it, altliough he is invariably walk in the gutters or the road. All one to him, iiowever, itis of no consequence; he would and perhaps does the same, andhis most venerated and exemplary father did so before him andlikewise his forefathers who were all good men and cannot he helped, so it must be endured. And no one disputesit, except the boorish and irreverent foreign devil (fan-ciuai)who was born with such despicably barbarous notions, who isalways rudely peering ahead into the impenetrable future, insteadof looking reverently back and living like an exemplary son ofHan and disciple of Confucius—always in the glorious past, wherelies the source of all inspiration, of all comfort, and of life andprosperity to himself and his incomparable country. I soon came to the conclusion that the Chinese are, and alwayshave been, and will be to the end of all time, a de
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