chapter 28
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The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table classified minds uhe heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. "All eical and practical wisdom, " he observes, " is aension or variation of the arithmetical formulaplusequal . Every philosophical proposition has the meneral character of the expression a plus b equal c. " Now the whole family of John Smith belong decidedly to the category of minds which the Autocrat calls arithmetical intellects. John Smith s father, John Smith senr, alias John Bull, made his fortuh the simple formulaplusequal . John Bull came to a to sell his Maer goods and to make money a on very well with John aman because both he and John aman uood and agreed perfectly upon the formulaplusequal . But John Smith Junr, who now rules the British Empire, es out to a with his head filled with a plus b equal c which he does not uand_and not tent to sell his Maer goods, wants to civilise the ese or, as he expresses it, to "spread Anglo-Saxon ideals . " The result is that John Smith gets on very badly with John aman, and, what is still worse, uhe civilising influence of John Smiths a plus b equal glo-Saxon ideals, John aman, instead of being a good, ho, steady er for Maer goods s his business, goes to g Su-ho s 藏书网Gardens to celebrate the stitution, in fact bees a mad, raving reformer.I have lately, by the help of Mr.Putnam Weales "Reshaping of the Far East" and other books, tried to pile a Catechism of Anglo-Saxon Ideals for the use of ese students. The result, so far, is something like this:_
. _ What is the chief end of man?
The chief end of man is to glorify the British Empire.
. _Do you believe in God? Yes, when I go to Church.
._ What do you believe in when you are not in Church? I believe in is_in what will pay.
. _What is justification by faith? To believe in everyone for himself.
. _What is justification by works? Put money in your pocket.
. _What is Heaven?
Heaven means to be able to live in Bubbling Well Roa * and drive in victorias.
. _What is Hell?
Hell means to be unsuccessful.
. _What is a state of human perfectibility? Sir Robert Hart s Servi a.
. _What is blasphemy?
To say that Sir Robert Hart is not a great man of genius.
. _What is the most heinous sin? To obstruct British trade.
. _For urpose did God create the four hundred million ese?
For the British to trade upon.
. _What form of prayer do you use when you pray? We thank Thee,Lord, that we are not as the wicked Russians and brutal Germans are, who want to partition a.
. _Who is the great Apostle of the Anglo-Saxon Ideals in a.
Dr. Morrison, the Times Correspo in Peking. It may be a libel to say that the above is a true statement of Anglo-Saxon ideals, but any one who will take the trouble to read Mr. Putnam Weales book will not deny that the above is a fair represen-
* The most fashionable quarter in Shanghai.
tation of the Anglo-Saxon ideals of Mr. Putnam Weale and John Smith who reads Mr. Putnam Weales books.
The most curious thing about the matter is that the civilising <q>99ｌｉｂ.</q>influence of John Smith s Anglo-Saxon ideals is really taking effe a. Uhis influence John aman too is now wanting to glorify the ese Empire. The old ese literati with his eight-legged essays was a harmless humbug. But fners will find to their cost that the new ese literati who uhe influence of John Smiths Anglo-Saxon ideals is clam for a stitution, is likely to bee an intolerable and dangerous nuisance. In the end I fear John Bull Senior will not only find his Maer goods trade ruined, but he will eve to the expense of sending out a General Gordon or Lord Kiter to shoot his poor old friend John aman who has bee non entis uhe civilising influence of John Smiths Anglo-Saxon ideals. But that is her here nor there.
What I want to say here in plain, slish is this. It is a woo me that the Englishman who es out to a with his head filled with all the arrant nonsense written in books about the ese, get along at all with the ese with whom he has to deal. Take this spe, for instance, from a big volume, entitled "The Far East: its history and its questions, " by Alexis Krausse.
"The crux of the whole q<bdo></bdo>uestion affeg the Powers of the Western nations in the Far East lies in the appreciation of the true inwardness of the Oriental mind. An Oriental not only sees things from a different standpoint to (!) the Octal, but his whole train of thought and mode of reasoning are at variahe very sense of perception implanted in the Asiatic varies from that with which we are endowed!
After reading the last senten Englishman in a, when he wants a piece of -white paper, if he follows the ungrammatical Mr.
Krausses advice, would have to say to his boy:_"Boy, bring me a piece of black paper. " It is, I think, to the credit of practical men a-mong fners in a that they put away all this nonsense about the true inwardness of the Oriental mind when they e to deal practically with the ese. In fact I believe that those fners get o with the ese and are the most successful men in a who stick toplusequal , and leave the a plus b equal c theories of Oriental inwardness and Anglo-Saxon ideals to John Smith and Mr. Krausse. Indeed when one remembers that in those old days, before the Rev. Arthur Smith wrote his "ese Characteristics," the relatioween the heads or taipans of great British firms such as Jardine, Matheson and their ese pradores * were always those of mutual affe, passing on to one or meions; when one remembers this, one is ined to ask what good, after all, has clever John Smith with his a plus b equal c theories of Oriental inwardness and Anglo-Saxon ideals doher to ese or fners?
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