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an initial essay the writer traced the general outline of the problem as it appeared to him from an intensive study conducted on the spot; and although exception may be taken to some of the conclusions he arrived at, it should be carefully noted that these conclusions are to-day the common possession of every unbiassed [sic] political student in Eastern Asia who is able to think of the Chinese as normal human beings and who does not deny that they are entitled to international justice.

Two grand facts should emerge from the analysis made; first, that although China has officially and publicly thrown overboard not only her ancient civilization but her system of government, she has not yet succeeded in substituting anything more solid than the theory of Western practice; secondly, that Japan, following the path of empire that other virile nations have pursued in the past, and believing that the World War has entitled her to a cer-