The Spirit of the Chinese People

Gu Hongming

13 chapters · about 3 h

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The opening

INTRODUCTION. Tht Religion of Good-citizenship

Tht Religion of Good-citizenship

Sage, than wir nicht recht? Wir miissen deu Pobel betriigen, Sieh nor, wie un^eschickt, sieh nur wie wild er sich zeigt! Ungeschick und wild sind alle rohen Betrogenen; Seid nur redlich und fuhrt ihn zum Menschlichen an.

Goethe.

Arein’t we just doing the right thing?the mob we most befool them; I See, now, how shiftless land look now how wird!for such is the mob. Shiftless and wild all sons of Adam are when you befool them; Be but honest and true, and thus make human, them all.

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The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 16 places
  • The half-title ("THE SPIRIT or THE CHINESE PEOPLE.") and a speck on the next page (4 blocks)
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • The University of Toronto library's date stamp ("FEB 26 1968") and shelf mark (2 blocks)
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "i" (2 blocks)
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "iiJ"
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "11"
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "i*"
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "I" (4 blocks)
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "«"
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "II"
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "It"
  • A speck in the page margin, read as "1"
  • Scan matter: a speck below the last poem, read as "t"
  • Printed ornaments and dividers, in 5 places