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The prevalent idea of the rebels is that the Chinese

pro- vinces should be federated and should resemble the United States of America. We cannot believe for a moment that China is politically educated for what is a noble but also a very complicated form of democracy. Bnt one knows from experience that a democratic form may cover a multitude of reactionary devices, and possibly in this way China might win her way through many trials to the form of government that suited her best. It does not seem likely that the Manchu House which is now falling in pitiful ruins will be treated cruelly or offensively; nor is there even at this crisis any anti-

foreign movement, which indeed would be opposed to the genius of the whole rebel movement..

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