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Rh the question whether China in the future will be independent or come under a foreign yoke will depend upon whether she will ever have an efficient army and that question again will depend upon whether the educated and governing class in China will ever regain the true ancient meaning and conception of the word shih (士) not as civilancivilian [sic] scholar, but as a gentleman who bears arms and is able to defend his country against aggression.