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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 311, charting the collision course.

So from the very ancient time,

Zhonguo was a unified country.

All countries surrounding Zhonguo were barbarians.

They did not have culture.

They did not have a developed political system. Our people,

Umin, thus did not treat the barbarian countries as equal counterparts, and our country,

Wu Guo, for several thousands of years, had always been in the position of standing alone.

Our people thus considered our country as the entire world. Yang Qi Chao, Chinese politician, social and political activist, journalist, and intellectual

1899.

We human beings have not secured happiness.

On the contrary, science gives us catastrophes.

We are like travelers losing our way in a desert.

They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere.

But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despondency.

Liang Chi Chao.

If it is true that our civilization has something pitiable about it,

you have the choice of concluding with Rousseau that this pitiable civilization is to blame for our bad morality,

or against Rousseau that our good morality is to blame for this pitiableness of our civilization.

Our weak, unmanly social concepts of good and evil, and their tremendous ascendancy over body and soul,

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