the world could have been content to appear in China as
suppliants, seeking the privilege of trade, so

1 ¤¤°ê.
2 ½Ñ®L; Ana. III. v.
3 ¤Ñ¤U; passim.
4 Ana. III. v.
5 Ana. IX. xiii.
6 ®Ñ¸g, III. ii. 10; et al.
7 ¬X»·¤H.
8 »«®È.


long the government would have ranked them with the barbarous
hordes of antiquity, and given them the benefit of the maxim
about 'indulgent treatment,' according to its own understanding of
it. But when their governments interfered, and claimed to treat
with that of China on terms of equality, and that their subjects
should be spoken to and of as being of the same clay with the
Chinese themselves, an outrage was committed on tradition and
prejudice, which it was necessary to resent with vehemence.
I do not charge the contemptuous arrogance of the Chinese
government and people upon Confucius; what I deplore, is that he
left no principles on record to check the development of such a
spirit. His simple views of society and government were in a
measure sufficient for the people while they dwelt apart from
the rest of mankind. His practical lessons were better than if
they had been left, which but for him they probably would have
been, to fall a prey to the influences of Taoism and Buddhism, but
they could only subsist while they were left alone. Of the earth