. The awakening of China . ars,In Fortunes smile to bask I seem;Perennial, Spring appears. Alas! Leviathan to takeDefies the fishers art;From dreams of glory I awake,—My youth and power depart. That loss is often gains disguiseMay us for loss fellow-sufferers, take adviceAnd keep otir reason whole. In more than one crisis, the heart of the nation hascleaved to the Manchu house as the embodiment oflaw and order. The people chose to adhere to a toler-ably good government rather than take the chance ofa better one emerging from the strife of factions. Three things are required to confi
. The awakening of China . ars,In Fortunes smile to bask I seem;Perennial, Spring appears. Alas! Leviathan to takeDefies the fishers art;From dreams of glory I awake,—My youth and power depart. That loss is often gains disguiseMay us for loss fellow-sufferers, take adviceAnd keep otir reason whole. In more than one crisis, the heart of the nation hascleaved to the Manchu house as the embodiment oflaw and order. The people chose to adhere to a toler-ably good government rather than take the chance ofa better one emerging from the strife of factions. Three things are required to confirm their loyalty:(i) the abolition of tonsure and pigtail, (2) the aban-donment of all privileges in examinations and in thedistribution of offices, (3) the removal of all impedi-ments in the way of intermarriage. This last has been recently authorised by proclama-tion. It is not so easy for those who are in possessionof the loaves and fishes to admit others to an equalshare. If to these were added the abolition of a de-. THE MANCHUS 279 grading badge, the Manchu dynasty might hope tobe perpetual, becaus^ the Manchus wovdd cease toexist as a people. CONCLUSIONS 1. More than once I have demanded the expulsionof the Manchus, and the partition of China. Thatthey deserved it no one who knows the story of 1900will venture to deny. It was not without reason thatMene tekel and Ichabod were engraved on the medalcommemorating the siege in Peking. If I seem torecant, it is in view of the hopeful change that hascome over the spirit of the Manchu the leadership of Dowager Empress and Em-peror, the people are more likely to make peacefulprogress than under a new d3masty or under the Polishpolicy of division. 2. The prospect of admission to the full privilegesof a member of the brotherhood of nations will act asan incentive to improvement. But the subjection offoreigners to Chinese jurisdiction ought not to be con-ceded without a probation as long and thorough asthat throu
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