The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-17
The Chinese


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The Chinese.
The Chinesa ei0ught not 81. the
Caucasian rnee, have all It's political,
moral, and social capabilities. Long
ago, they reached a higher plane Of
than most of the European
nations attained until muah later
period. The Western states have since
risen above that. plane The whole
world Is anEiOusly inquiring whsshsr
China is TO retrieve the advantages She
has lost, and Il she is to come within
the family of modern civilized states 4
SIR. Buriingams,5 sanguins tempsEa-
msnt aud charitable disposition led
him TO form too favorable an opinion of /.
the present condition of China. In his
anxiety to secure more liberal policy
ON the part of the Western nations to-
ward the ancient empire, he gave MS to
understand, espseially.in his speeches,
that while Chins has much 20 learn
from the Western states, shs is not
without some peculiar institutions
which they may sdvaEtGgsously adopt
This is not unite true. Although China
is far from being a bsrbauouB state, yet
every system and institutions there is
inferior to It's corresponding ons in the
West. Whether it bss the abstract
sciences. such as philosophy and psy-
choIogy, or whether it be the practical
forms OF natural science, astronomy,
geology, geography. natural history,
aud chemistry, or the consress ideas Of
government aud laws, morals and. man.
ners Whistler it be IN the sesfhetis
arts on msehanics-every tlling5n China
is sffess. Chinese education rejects
science :; Chinese industry prosoi ibes
invention Chinese morals appeal not
TO conscience, but to convenience;
Chinese architecture and navigation es-
chew all improvements !; Chinese gov
srunsnt maintains itself by sxsortion
and terror Chinese religion is mater
iaIistis-not even mystic, nuch less
spiritual. If We ask how this inferior
ity has ooms about, among a people
who have achieved so much IN the psst,
snd have capacities for greater achieve
rnent IN the future, We mist concludes
that. owing 70 some error N thsir an
cient soeiai system, the fReuity Of in
ventinn has been arrested IN It's exercise
and impaired
China hrst bsosms known to the
Western world by the discoveries Of
Marco Polo in the thirteenth century.
At tllat period, aud until after the ex-
olorationa of Vaseo de Cana, China
! E.1pears to have been not comparatively
/ zreat prosperous, and enlightened but
absolutely 50. Aa empire extending
from the shows of Sibsria to the trop-
los. and from the Paeifio 20 the moun-
Il sources OF the grsat riversof Continent
/ Al Asia, its population constituted one
/ fourth Of the human raes Diversified
/ climate and soil afforded all the 10
Sources Of public and private wealth.
Science aud art developed those 70
sources. Thus, when European nations
came upon the shores of China, IN thf
si,teentll century, they found the en-
pirs independent and seif-sustainiug
Tls Mantehoos ON The north had IN
vaded the ampirs and substituted 4
Tartar dynasty at NsniIing, but tbs
eonausrols snd the conquered we're stil
Chinese, and the change was a revoiu
ton aud not aIbiugation- China
having thus attained all. the objects o
national life, cams 70 indulge senti
ment OF superciliGuB pride, under tn
influences of which she isolated hersel
from ali other nations. Her govern
rnsnt from its earliest period was in tn
hands of a scholastic and pedanti
class 8 GLASS which elsewhere has bsai
found incapable OF praeticat rule
Since the isolation took place, tia
GLASS has effectively exercised all tn
} powers of the state; IN rspressing IN
/ quigy and sitting invention, throug
I fear that q change IN any dirsctio
would result in their own overthrow
r The long isolation OF the empire, an
J slls eztirpation Of nativs invention, 1av
snded in reversing the position. d
, China Prom besug self-sustaining- an
| independent. a. she vas viisu found b
the European states, she has besom
> imbecfle dependent, gnd helpless
d Without military science snd ant, she
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