Towards democracy

China 475 By the way of abject common sense they have sought the

gates of Paradise—and to found on human soil their City ~ Celestial !

And this is an outline of the nation which the Western nations would fain remodel on their own lines—

The pyramids standing on their own apexes wanting to overturn the pyramid which rests foursquare on its base!

But China remembers too well the time when it too endured the absurdities of monopolized Land and Capital, of private property in water and other necessaries, of glaring wealth and poverty, and the practical enslavement of one man by another ;

It remembers even yet the discomfort of standing on its Own apex,

And oddly enough has no intention of returning to those times.