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Rh can be pointed out upon the map. But if they will not admit this, and strictly keep good faith according to the treaties which they have accepted, the result will be for them calamities greater than any that have yet befallen the empire. Their lot has fallen in critical times, when the books of Confucius are a very insufficient and unsafe guide for them. If my study of the Ch‘un Ts‘ëw help towards convincing them of this, and leading them to look away from him to another Teacher, a great aim of my life will have been gained.

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