Cosmopolitan Volume 18 book
Cosmopolitan Volume 18 book
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 402 pages
Published Date: 22 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236448842
File Name: Cosmopolitan.Volume.18.pdf
Download Link: Cosmopolitan Volume 18
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...will be patched up are a matter of comparatively less consequence as long as our trading rights are in no way interfered with. Let us try to peer into the future beyond the termination of hostilities, assuming the indemnity to be paidand all Japan's other claims upon China settled. Will China be able to revert to her old exclusiveness? Can she re-assume that military superiority of tone in dealing with foreign nations which has always been a prominent characteristic of her rulers, and would seem to be innate in every Chinaman? Our little wars with China undoubtedly shook the foundations of its government at the time, although we were a distant power little known to the bulk of the Chinese people, and consequently were a people about whom the emperor's ministers could afford to lie freely. But the Japanese have not the reasons we had for showing consideration to the Peking government. They will naturally strike it as hard as they can in the most vulnerable spot they can get at. Unless during this winter China can organize a thoroughly efficient army of about one hundred thousand men under English or other foreign officers, she ought, by June next, to be under the heel of her present invaders. We may, therefore, ask ourselves, will not the inevitable consequence of overwhelming defeat by a well-known neighboring State be the collapse of the present emperor's d3'nasty? And will not the downfall of the existing government be the prelude to a great revolution? That revolution may be the violent and appalling upheaval of all present institutions by an enraged, because a humbled and defeated people. But, in the interests of poor humanity, let us pray that it may be peacefully effected by the emperor and his ministers, as was the case in Japan when she adopted west...
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Cosmopolitan Volume 18. Books Group
Author: Books Group
Page Count: 402 pages
Published Date: 22 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236448842
File Name: Cosmopolitan.Volume.18.pdf
Download Link: Cosmopolitan Volume 18
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...will be patched up are a matter of comparatively less consequence as long as our trading rights are in no way interfered with. Let us try to peer into the future beyond the termination of hostilities, assuming the indemnity to be paidand all Japan's other claims upon China settled. Will China be able to revert to her old exclusiveness? Can she re-assume that military superiority of tone in dealing with foreign nations which has always been a prominent characteristic of her rulers, and would seem to be innate in every Chinaman? Our little wars with China undoubtedly shook the foundations of its government at the time, although we were a distant power little known to the bulk of the Chinese people, and consequently were a people about whom the emperor's ministers could afford to lie freely. But the Japanese have not the reasons we had for showing consideration to the Peking government. They will naturally strike it as hard as they can in the most vulnerable spot they can get at. Unless during this winter China can organize a thoroughly efficient army of about one hundred thousand men under English or other foreign officers, she ought, by June next, to be under the heel of her present invaders. We may, therefore, ask ourselves, will not the inevitable consequence of overwhelming defeat by a well-known neighboring State be the collapse of the present emperor's d3'nasty? And will not the downfall of the existing government be the prelude to a great revolution? That revolution may be the violent and appalling upheaval of all present institutions by an enraged, because a humbled and defeated people. But, in the interests of poor humanity, let us pray that it may be peacefully effected by the emperor and his ministers, as was the case in Japan when she adopted west...
Read online Cosmopolitan Volume 18 Buy and read online Cosmopolitan Volume 18 Download Cosmopolitan Volume 18 for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Cosmopolitan Volume 18