The Recognition of the Chinese Republic, Address of Major Louis Livingston Seaman Delivered at the Conference on Recent Developments in China, Held at Clark University, Worcester, November 13th, 1912 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Recognition of the Chinese Republic, Address of Major Louis Livingston Seaman Delivered at the Conference on Recent Developments in China, Held at Clark University, Worcester, November 13th, 1912 The problem of the Orient is the problem of the Twentieth Century, and to-day, China is its key. The most eventful year of modern times in the life of the Chinese people has just passed into history. They have escaped from the despotism of a corrupt monarchy to the freedom of a Republic. The problems which now confront them are the recognition of their government as a Republic by foreign nations, and the adjustment of their finances. Unless these are arranged to the satisfaction of a powerful syndicate of bankers, backed by the diplomats of their various countries, it has been intimated that the partitioning of the country may be apprehended as a probable eventuality. It might have been hoped that the carnival of territorial lust, which for centuries caused untold bloodshed the world over, had culminated in the partitioning of Africa - the last of the continents to be parceled off by the worlds looters, who in the division of the spoils, followed, as the robber barons of feudal times, "The good old rule, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." But look at China to-day - that grand old country, with its great wall which for over twenty centuries protected it from the hordes of Tartars and Mongols on the North, while its Thibetan ranges on the West, and impenetrable forests on the South, permitted it to live in peace and tranquility thousands of years, with no fear of molestation by "foreign devils," from land or sea. And in this time the beautiful but fallacious philosophy of Confucius, which taught the rule of moral suasion rather than that by might, grew until its essence was expressed in the proverb, "Better have no child than one who is a soldier" - this, too, in a land where it is considered a disgrace to die childless. And what was the natural result: A condition of insecurity, of defencelessness, of inability to enforce that first law of nature - self-protection - followed, which, when realized by the Occidental nations, resulted in their seizing great sections of her domains upon trivial excuses, and wringing most valuable concessions from her rulers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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