Sun Yat-sen

“ England is the first country that Chinese students went there to study and the other European countries is only recently but I found that those students just come out to Germany and Belgium are more advancing in ideas than those who have been many years in England and France. This is a very strange thing but it is a fact. The people general in the backward country of China are more eagerly to seek western knowledges and sciences than those people in the
^ coast provinces which come into contact with Europeans for many generations. ”

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