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170 unintentional rebuke to the nervous impatience which, under like circumstances, would be sure to characterise the Anglo-Saxon.

Chinese endued with this happy temperament we believe to be by no means rare. Every one of much experience in China has met them. We repeat that if the teaching of history as what happens to “the fittest” is to be trusted, there is a magnificent future for the Chinese race.