Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-04-28

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NJ may "uW pass 70 Il more com.
n',N l.hr~e # the '"G airy; that IN
nn,rh rt' al pr'ri!yit g, are added
80 ,ivsl'a ,'t a,e, ~ r~ factors IN
4, he drvrlu .Iurnt OF Chime 81 charac-
ter. an of 'h- elements, good or
bad, ut ChlH.-' power. An i III thus
We should ace the iuiulation of
i. tive ed ,Mu.t.. by tbH reiterated
effect, through tour Thousand T"lrs,
IF moral AMI intellectual laws. - we
have suunht t" trace f." results %
phvsicrl conditions upon those OF
Iheir institution more direct y acted
npon hv the moI,Iin~ action Of sub
irc,ive Influences. The process Is
perhaps more difficult i'll :he one
ease than IN the other, because we
must Judge of character by Its mani
frstatIons, while the facts ct the
.hvsicll world lie uDon Ii" surface.
But it is not neces5arlally NOR" oh
,.ure III It's inductlonS or uncertain
III ltSresuitS. In the pu"1ni' o: thls
branch of oar study we may i"arn
that current Caucasian public OPINION
has uudrrraiel the Stieng II AMI
IaStutrnes, OF the CaInt,c intellect,
and has nverrtted any other claim
which China may have II inr ftN"r-
able consideration al Caucasian com
muni'ieS. We may flint, If | mis- AXE
not, that the Cain 'se character Is
strong not only Iii It's positive but III
! It's NEGATIVE elements; thai the very
IabSence of those finer and higher
Qualities, which are with Us believed
to be esSentill to enlightened com
munities, has given, and Will con-
tinue to give, II pleponieratln@ pow
er to the Chinese III all that relates
| to merely material success: III brief,
that ,neir clvilizl'lon bears the same
relation to that of Europe and Am"r-
lea that the proverblan ron pot bore
to the fl ,sk of porcelain AS the two
in contact tioated down the stream.
We have already seen that the
Industries of China were self evolved ;
splaus fIom no foreign source, and
were Unaffected by any external
agency. This carries with it the con-
vIction that the intellectual type
must have been developed in like
manner, for the same conditions
which exclude the idea of aud sub,
iec,ive force in the formation of in
dustrics necessarily exclude any cor
responding idea as to tue formation,
development, or progress OF the
racial mind. That this Is the case
IS also shown 10y the fact that the
governmental, social, and religious
institutions are simply an extension
of those which control the tatiIiiT Ill
the car iiest stages OF society. thi>
can be traced IN the constitution 81
the Chinese Empire as clearly and
certainly rs ile banlan tree, spread
lug lis connected trunks over man i.
acres, can be traced to the solitary
stem from which II originally spraug
The Emperor stands as pateriamllla>
to all his people; the governors oI
the eighteen provinces are III the
r same relation to those below them
and so on, through all the grades OF
authority, down to the family over
which the father exercises absolute
control. The social duties have tol
their essential foundation, first
reverence for the head ot the family
and second, reverence for the pa
ternal authority embodied in the
officers of the law. Religion, al
| .hou4h tolerated III almost all It's
forms by the state, is with the Chi
nese, little else than the worship o
ancestors, Notwithstanding tLat theil
mythology is full of sod,,-some o
: them mortals who died within his
torlc times, and others merely the
evils which they dread, tor to then
: even the smallpox Is an object o
: alteration. In the dwellings, OF the
great mandarlaus are sanctuarle
sacred to the burning of PERU mes
the presentations; of off rings, ant
the making OF prostrauons to th'
memories of their ioretathers, ant
Tor communication with the spirit.
$ If the dead. The poorest lab ,rer
: crowded with score of others III
single room of \ mud built dwelling
. has, in IL corner of his Judgement
u IA shelf sacred to the same purpose
= Sacrilese itself is defined by tin
S Book OF Rites AS dlsrespect to one
h prosenitors. This, strange an,
puerlle as it may seem to us, become
almost grand IN view of its dept
G and iui enslty. 1t shows how far
after all, the emotional nature o
man is superior to external surround
Il inSs. For this worship, which dom
S mates China to-day as 1t has don
4 for thousands OF years, Is but tn
survival, developed ami intensified
of the awe with which the eallles
Scythians, impressed with the fear
& ful mystery of death, heard tn
e voices of the departed III the storm
S of the mountain valleys or the rustl
q of the wind through the grass Of tn
starl,t steppes of the North. Nee
. essarlly associated with this lever
cnce of their foIeia;herS Is Il Ink
reverence for the forms, II: ages, an'
customs OF antiquity. Hence tn
+ permanence Of their laws, til II sta
It blity as people, notwIihntahdn!
k the turmoil ol many terrible rcHoln
tons. These uoa1es and custom
have sprung from the same sourc
rs the beliefs OF the people and ar
the out4rowtr of the idea of tn
= family. For although the lhhahI
| tauts OF northern China may readiI.
: dlstin,, uished 10y speech and ap
pearance from those OF the sUutu
yet ali read the same language, an'
/ all, i'll essential thing, obey tn
! same rules and follow the same prin
ciples of life and conduct, and ihls
) not only as indiv duals, but as
colossal community.
Garrvinp ono of tha most Sacrc,