Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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adopt a pol1c,v of exclueion, but those who
se;y
it alW&¥s have IIll inter_
ested moth'e, IIlld would be the first to protest
if
the principle were
applied to themselvn.
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foreign interco1.U'se with China,
J ..pan, and the islands of the South Sell.S, has not been so un1!ol'1llly
BuccesBlul, at least eo far
a.
the native...re concerned, to make it
certain that the, have bsen benefitted,
Soma
of them have been Chril-
tianbed, but .. much larger number have been tau,ght the 1I'or.t vice.
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civilisation.
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alii
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orrr that I
am
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the WEl.r
~ore
in detail, but be.ide. that it has
alrea~
been often done,
it
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hi.t0rf of deleat on one 'ide and IUCce•• on the other.
The Chine.e were uttllrly unable to cope with western science. I
am
ver"
much inclined to dOllbt whether thi.
will
be the result
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future ware,
for the>' are a brave people, and
.
hen
they bave brushed a1l'&:I the cob–
L"!d learned how,
w.b., the,v
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be
lonnd to fight well.
They
are a .trllll&e people,
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Their form of co=age differ. frOID
our..
:
tor instance, there were
several ease. durin& thl
'
liar
where a Chine" general ran awa,;v all bard a.
he could f rom the field of action, 1I'ellt t o his own house
and
delibera tely
burned h1Juelf
up.
How can we sa;y there wes
lIllY
.
ant
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COUl"lI4!:el
It
....
a di f ferent kind of
co=~e
from that we should have
.
hown,
for
we would rather die in bot than in cold blood, but it wa.
cour~e
all
the rteme.
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h11e all these event. of pUblic interest were going on, our
livel 'IIere pas led in a quiet round
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dut1e.. 'e had a verr large bue-
ine.. on 0= h&.nd., it being not only that of J.ugustine Heard
&.
Co.
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but that of Jardine, uathe.on
&
Co. as well.
The
m&.gnitude of this will
be understood "hen 1 18¥ that the,v pa id
u.a
commhdons on IllUCh over
$10,000.000 a lear. To do all this we had only
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