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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: with those that ought to have characterized the ruler of a great
and powerful nation." Whatever else may be said of Kuang Hsu, he
cannot be accused of indolence, extravagance, or indifference to
the welfare of his country or his people.
Appreciating the difficulty of securing an expression of opinion
from those opposed to his views, and thus getting both sides of
the question, in his fourth edict he requested the conservatives
to send in their objections to his schemes for progress and
reform, and then as if to get the broadest possible expression of
opinion he adopted a Shanghai journal called Chinese Progress as
the official organ of the government. But lest this be
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