like other things better. We love life more than chasing
imitations of life.

Our differences of color, like our differences of speech, are
accidental, they are due to climatic and other influences. We came
originally from one stock. We all started evenly, Heaven has no
favorites. Man alone has made differences between man and man, and the
yellow man is no whit inferior to the white people in intelligence.
During the Russo-Japan War was it not the yellow race that displayed
the superior intelligence? I am sometimes almost tempted to say that
Asia will have to civilize the West over again. I am not bitter or
sarcastic, but I do contend that there are yet many things that the
white races have to learn from their colored brethren. In India, in
China, and in Japan there are institutions which have a stability
unknown outside Asia. Religion has apparently little influence on
Western civilization; it is the corner-stone of society in all Asiatic
civilizations. The result is that the colored races place morality in
the place assigned by their more practical white confreres to economic
propositions. We think, as we contemplate the West, that white people
do not understand comfort because they have no leisure to enjoy
contentment; THEY measure life by accumulation, WE by morality. Family
ties are stronger with the so-called colored races than they are among
the more irresponsible white races; consequently the social sense is
keener among the former and much individual suffering is avoided. We
have our vices, but these are not peculiar to US; and, at least, we
have the merit of being easily governed. Wherever there are Chinese
colonies the general verdict is: "The Chinese make good citizens."

This is what the late Sir Robert Hart, to whom China owes her Customs
organization, said about us:

"They (the Chinese) are well-behaved, law-abiding, intelligent,
economical, and industrious; they can learn anything and do anything;
they are punctiliously polite, they worship talent, and they believe in
right so firmly that they scorn to think it requires to be supported or
enforced by might; they delight in literature, and everywhere they have
their literary clubs and coteries for learning and discussing each
other's essays and verses; they possess and practise an admirable
system of ethics, and they are generous, charitable, and fond of good
work; they never forget a favor, they make rich return for any
kindness, and th