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    specializedlines梩heobviousproofofthisisthegreatbeautyofesehandicraft

    produgeneral梩hereseetobearrespondingarsenessasregards

    respoopainandgeneralsuffering.1theous.

    iii.infusionofnewblood

    buttheerelyorengthofarse

    nervesorofcapacityforsuffering.actually,theysurvivedonthesinolization2of

    ngolianpeoples.akindofphylogeikeyglandgraftingtookplace,for

    oneobservesaneofcultureaftereatroduofnehe

    briefsketchofthegeneralnstitutionandphysiditionoftheesepeople

    shothattheyhaveentirelyescapedtheeffectsoflongcivilizedliving,butthat

    theyhavedevelopedtraitshelplessatthehandsofafresherand

    restoveonasloerlevel,

    thelevelofsedateliving,notthelevelofaandadventure,hrresponding

    ntalandralhabitsofapeacefulaivecharacter.thiskesiteasily

    uandablethenorthable.politically,

    thenationhasperishedseveraltisatthehandsofthesenquerors.theproblebr >

    isthenhoidstofthispolitiainedasanation;

    nothoilitarydisasters,aschristendotoppedthe

    advahebattleoftours,buthosurvivedthesedisastersand,

    infatheytheinfusiolosingitsracial

    individualityors,wasanisedon

    sueanthelossofracial

    stanaandpoinaandpowerfor

    resistehekeytoassurvival.

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    fortandnvenieinghisexperiendobservationsofese

    dress,houses,pillousing.i

    istentisreasingtoithsatofhis

    sufferingsanddisforts.theansnervesareundoubtedlydegee.

    ntteyordtfrougkkereusedforthefirstti,ispreferabletotheatrocious

    siniacation.”

    theinfusioexplainteextenttheracialvigourthatthe

    esepeoplepossesstoday.historically,thisoccurshsuchstrikingregularity,

    attheintervalofeveryeighthundredyears,astoleadoosupposethatactuallya

    perieionoftheracehatitheinteal

    degeionoftheralfibreofthepeoplethatbroughtabouttheseperiodic

    upheavals,ratherthanviceversa.dr.j.s.lee,inastrikingpaperon”theperiodic

    recurrenceofinteeeadeastatisticalstudyofthese

    occurrences,inthesecyclesofpeaddisorderitofprobability”andis”perhapstooexacttobeexpected

    froheproanaffairs.”

    forthestrikingfactisthatesehistorybenvelydividedintocyclesof

    eighthundredyears.eachcyclebeginsilitarilystrong

    dynasty,erturiesofirife.thenfollowfourorfive

    hundredyearsofpeace,honegeofdynasty,succeededbysuccessivewaves

    ofovalofthecapitalfrohenorthtothesouth.then

    casecessionandrivalrybethandsouthhincreasingiy,

    folloionunderafnrule,hecycle.historythen

    repeatsitselfandhtheunificationofaagainundereserulethereisanew

    bloofculture.

    theparallelisfeventshineachcyfoldeditselfhanunreasonable

    eandsequence.dr.leentions,forinstahe

    uakingofagreatengineeriedhfatalregularityandat

    theexactstageineachcyaly,iediatelyatthebeginningofaneof

    culture:forthefirstcycle,thebuildingofthegreathedynastyand

    thelossalpalaces,theofangkuoanflagration

    lastingthreenths;forthesendcycle,thebuildingofthegrandaluhe

    sideernifitpalaotedfortheirgrandeurandluxury;

    andforthethirdcycle,therebuildingofthegreathassurvived

    tothepresentday,theopeningupofseveralnes,andthebuildingof

    theperloofthengdynasty,whowasalso

    fausfreatyunglolibrary.

    1theajoardapril,1931.

    thesecyclesprise:ifrohedynastytotheendofthesixdynastiesand

    thetartarinvasion221b.thesui

    dynastytothengolinvasion5891367,veringabout780years;and3the

    deingdynastytothepresentti,acycle

    ued,butselfisixhundredyearsh

    azingfidelitytothepreviouspatte.thepeaceoffivehundredyearshwas

    grantedusuhengandnchudynastiesseetohaverunitsdueurse,

    andarkedthefirstbigwaveof

    inteeehecresdoofdisorderandofinteeestrife,h

    sofarhasliveduptoitstraditionintherevalofthecapitalfroekingto

    nankingin1927.

    itisalstprophetiotethatadivisiohandsouthandthe

    subjugationofnortheabyafheoutstandingtwohundred

    yearshavee.1

    thefollosarereproducedherepartlyfortheirintrinsiterest,and

    partlyberyofaspoliticalhistoryofovertwo

    thousandyearshinthespeofaprintedpage.thecurvesrepresentthefrequency

    ofhinaproper.

    dr.leealsontiothat

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