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Towards Industrial Freedom

Towards Industrial Freedom

Carpenter, Edward

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ISBN10: 1151664065
ISBN13: 9781151664068
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt: ... IX SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN CHINA1 I In speaking of China, it is necessary to guard against a misconception still greatly current, namely that the Chinese are a backward, ignorant nation, slumbering in a kind of agelong lethargy. In many respects this notion is the reverse of the truth. In many respects the Chinese are the most wide-awake of races. They are certainly one of the most remarkable. Intelligent, observant, accurate, industrious, kindly, polite, tenacious of custom, having an immense history stretching back thousands of years, they are at once among the oldest and the most childlike of peoples--old and wise in the accumulated experience of their own past, yet little more than children in face of some of the problems which to-day the West presents to them. It is only in the latter sense that any awakening of China can be spoken of or expected. Their historical records come down in a con 1 Originally published as an article in The Co-operative Annual (1907). 164 tinuous stream from some 4,000 years ago; 1 and, though there has been constant development during that time, there has been no great break in their institutions. There is no record of a time when they did not occupy the country they now occupy; no record of a time when they had not a monarchical system, in general outline the same as they now possess 2--never a time when the great masses of the people were not agricultural as now, never a time when they were not practically self-sufficing and independent of other countries and peoples. Time and time again they have been invaded. Tartars, Manchurians, Mahommedans, Christians, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, English, and Russians have poured in upon them; yet they have never been very-greatly disturbed. With a smile that is childlike and bl...

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