The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu ILinebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
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The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I
Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925. San min zhu yi
74 Richard Wilhelm’s preface to _Die Geistigen Grundlagen des Sun Yat
Senismus_ of Tai Chi-tao (The Intellectual Foundations of
Sun-Yat-senism), Berlin, 1931 (henceforth cited as “Tai Chi-tao”),
pp. 8-9; “Die Grösse Sun Yat Sens beruht nun darauf, dass er eine
lebendige Synthese gefunden hat zwischen den Grundprinzipien des
Konfuzianismus and den Anforderungen der neuen Zeit, eine Synthese,
die über die Grenzen Chinas hinaus für die ganze Menschheit noch
einmal von Bedeutung werden kann. Sun Yat Sen vereinigt in sich die
eherne Konsequenz des Revolutionärs und die grosse Menschenliebe des
Erneuerers. Sun Yat Sen ist der gütigste von allen Revolutionären
der Menschheit gewesen. Und diese Güte hat er dem Erbe des Konfuzius
entnommen. So steht sein geistiges Werk da als eine verbindende
Brücke swischen der alten und der neuen Zeit. Und es wird das Heil
Chinas sein, wenn es entschlossen diese Brücke beschreitet.”
75 Tai Chi-tao, cited, p. 65.
76 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 186.
77 d’Elia translation, cited, pp. 187-8. Sun Yat-sen’s discussion of
the old morality forms the first part of his lecture on nationalism,
pp. 184-194 of the d’Elia translation.
78 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 66. The translation employs the words.
79 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 129. In connection with the doctrine
of _wang tao_, it may be mentioned that this doctrine has been made
the state philosophy of “Manchukuo.” See the coronation issue of the
_Manchuria Daily News_, Dairen, March 1, 1934, pp. 71-80, and the
_Japan-Manchoukuo Year Book_, Tokyo, 1934, pp. 634-635. The advocacy
of _wang tao_ in a state which is a consequence of one of the
perfect illustrations of _pa tao_ in the modern Far East, is
astonishing. Its use does possess significance, in demonstrating
that the shibboleths of ancient virtue are believed by the Japanese
and by “Emperor Kang Teh” to possess value in contemporary politics.
80 d’Elia translation, cited, pp. 528, 529.
81 See below, for discussion of the influence that Henry George, Karl
Marx, and Maurice William had upon the social interpretation of
history so far as economic matters were concerned.
82 See “The Theory of the Confucian World Society,” above.
83 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 341.
84 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 199.
85 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 194.
86 d’Elia translation, cited, p. 194. The original quotation, in
Chinese and in English, may be found in James Legge, translator,
_The Four Books_, Shanghai, 1930, p. 313.
87 d’Elia translation, cited, pp. 194-195.
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