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European powers have for some
years gathered round the carcase
of the Chinese effete state is most
revolting to my mind. What
right had France to Tonquin,
Russia to Port Arthur, or Germany
to (I think) Kiangchan? This is what
China has had to pay for the corruption
of its provincial governments, its contempt
for the military occupation (which ranked
lower than that of a shopkeeper) and
sundry other sappings of the authority
by which order has to be provided
for in large communities.

But what is the use of my
preaching?

I have not heard from
Send Grove for an age, and
am thankful to you for