The Coming China (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Coming ChinaGuam, Luzon, and the Bashee Islands, and the entire voyage across the Pacific was accomplished in seventy-seven days, towards the end becoming so tedious that we were very glad indeed to see the coast of China late one afternoon near the end of August, and the next day to get on shore at Hong kong. I stayed there only one day and a half and then went by a small steamer to Swatow, where I landed early one morning and at once passed into a new phase of life that was almost inconceivably different from anything I had previously known or, to tell the truth, even dreamt of.When I recall the backwardness of China in the year 1866, and the fact that a similar appearance of unprogressiveness was a marked feature of life in that part of the world until a very few years ago, and then when I note the tremendous strides the Chinese have made during a decade or so, it seems as if the charge of inertia must be withdrawn, and if for just and sufficient reason it is once withdrawn, even for a moment, the very doing so connotes a change in all things Chinese so radical that never again will it be possible to renew the charge of inertia, because the motion which will have been imparted is to endure for all time. But will it go on to self-destructive acceleration, or will it be wisely con trolled by the rulers and leaders of the Coming China, so as to benefit the Chinese themselves and contribute to the Welfare of the whole world?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.