The Spirit of the Chinese People 精彩片段：
chapter 36
We will conclude with a quotation from " The Higher Education, " or the Book of Platitudes, as foreigners consider it. "The Government of the Empire," it is said in that book, "should begin with the proper administration of the State; the administration of the State begins with the regulation of the family; the regulation of the family begins with the cultivation of the individual." This, then, is what we mean by Chinese Scholarship.
This article on Chinese Scholarship was written and published in the "N.C. daily news" in Shanghai in .
APPENDIX
the religion OF mob-worship OR the war AND the way out
Frankreich s traurig Geschick, die Grosser! mogen s bedenken,
Aber bedenken fiirwahr sollen es Kleine nech mehr ;
Grossen gingen zu Grunde ; dock wer beschittze die Menge
Gegen die Mengef Da -war Menge der Menge Tyrann.
Goethe
Professor Lowes Dickinson of Cambridge University in an eloquent passage of his article on "The War and the Way out," says: "The future (the future of civilisation in Europe, he means) cannot be moulded to any purpose until the plain men and women, workers with their hands and workers with their brains in England and in Germany and in all countries get together and say to the people who have led them into this catastrophe and will lead them into such again and again, "No more! No more! And never again! you rulers, soldiers and diplomats, you who through the long agony of history have conducted the destinies of mankind and conducted them to hell, we do now repudiate you. Our labour and our blood have been at your disposal. They shall be so no more. You shall not make the peace as you have made the war. The Europe that shall come out of this war shall be our Europe. And it shall be one in which another European
Dreadful is Frances misfortune, the Classes should truly bethink them,
But still more of a truth, the Masses should lay it to heart. Classes were smashed up; well then, but who will protect now the Masses
Gainst the Masses? Against the Masses the Masses did rage.war shall be never possible. "
That is the dream of the socialists now in Europe. But such a dream, I am afraid, can never be realised. When the plain men and women in the countries of Europe get rid of the rulers, soldiers and diplomats and take into their own hands the question of peace and war with another country, I am perfectly sure, before that very question is decided, there will be quarrels, broken heads and wars between the plain men and women themselves in every country. Take the case of the Irish question in Great Britain. The plain men and women in Ireland in trying to take into their own hands the question even of how to govern themselves were actually flying at each others throats and if this greater war had not come, would at this moment, be cutting each others throats.