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Identifier: cu31924023226081 (find matches)
Title: An American engineer in China
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932
Subjects: Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932 Railroads
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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, and for many rea-sons inevitably will be, of preponderating weight.Thus we shall have the final confirmation of thesingular and interesting circumstance that theworlds progress has always been from the risingto the setting sun, ex oriente lux. Now, after alapse of five thousand years, the youngest of thegreat nations is preparing to pass on, or rather toreturn, this light to the oldest, whence it startedin its circum-orbem journey. Whether thelatter, receiving back the flame, will add some- Chapter XI: In the Twentieth Century 315 thing to its brightness as each previous nationhas done, and start it moving once more west-ward, and so begin a new and still higher circleof development for the world, is one of those in-teresting questions that only a generation far inthe future will be able to answer. We of to-dayare concerned not so much with what China willeventually do with progress, as with what weourselves can and should do with it now. The End. ^^0 M 0 N G 0 L I A iO SIN KI A N G
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CNGFUVED BV BORMAr ft CO., N.V. Index Accuracy. 123, 293, 294, 297American concession, 44-53, 252 influence, 173, 314 opportanities, 173-179 policy, 44, 314Ancestral worsliip, 140Annam, 39, 263Anti-foreign spirit, 120Arbor culture, 172Arches, 20, 199-205Architecture, Chinese, 215, 217 Baxkixg, Chinese, 167, 181Belgian concession, 252, 253, 256, 257, 262Boards of government, 27Boxers, 52, 312Bridges, 199-209 British concessions, 253, 254, 256,257, 262 interests, 261, 262 possessions, ^j, 42Buddhism, 23, 139Budget, Imperial, 189Bulkheads in junks, 227 Cantilever bridge, 207Canton, 45, 46. 9i, i°° !!• ^^2, 119, 151, 251, 252, 261, 280, 300, 301Canton River, 34, 37, 112Card, Chinese visiting, 84, 88, 14sCash, coin, 182Celestial Kingdom, i5Census, Chinese, 291-296Chair, sedan, 72, 76, 87, 89, 238, 239 Chang Chih-tung, 7, 30, 58, 86, 119Chang-sha, 6, 50, 52, 82, 87, 103, 104, 168, 31DCharacter, 127, 215Chaii Dynasty, 20Che-ling Pass, 99Chi-li, province of, 35, 163China, area of, 17 name

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  • booksubject:Railroads
  • bookpublisher:New_York__McClure__Phillips___co_
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