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The Qin, those eminent Hellenists of the East, created the preconditions of the Chinese State. Chinese culture? What is that? You cannot even name it without invoking the Qin? By what strange magic? And modern readers think the Zhou are the Chinese...do not confound the Orient and Chinese! The one is culture; the other a state. A culture within which is contained, still, the spirit that will die for its beliefs, within which the Ancient Traditions exist that will be renamed by the Word, whose Name exceeds above every other name; a state which creeps around every night before it retires to its coffin when the sun of revolution evaporates the nameless droplets that be Chinese peasants! Do not confound the two. The one has been dead a long time, that abortive John the Baptist; the other has spread among the world, abstracted from its native soil and known from age to age as “collectivism” and “communism” and “socialism” but really being—TYRANNY! There, I have named the ideology.
