Note 70 — CONCLUDING REMARKS

Since writing the above pages I have read Mr. A. R. Colquhoun’s chapters on “Government and Administration,” “The Chinese People,” and “Chinese Democracy,” in which I find views similar to my own stated with great force, breadth, and intimate knowledge. The last chapter concludes with these important words: “It is only fitful glimpses which strangers are able to obtain of the inner working of Chinese national life—quite insufficient to form a coherent theory of the whole ... but the data ascertained seem sufficient to warrant the inference of a vast, self-governed, law-abiding society, costing practically nothing to maintain, and having nothing to apprehend save natural calamities and national upheavals.”