196 See, however, the d’Elia translation, cited, pp. 298-301, for a reference to labor unions and a statement for their need of competent and honest leadership. 197 See Wittfogel, _Sun Yat-sen_, cited, “Die Arbeiter,” pp. 97-99. T’ang, Hsü, and the various biographies of Sun almost all contain references from time to time to Sun’s friendliness toward and approval of organized labor. 198 Wittfogel, _Sun Yat-sen_, cited, pp. 325-329. The next speech of Sun Yat-sen given in Wittfogel’s work is Sun’s indignant attack on “the so-called Labor Government” of England, which permitted the old methods of British Far Eastern imperialism to continue. 199 Linebarger, _Conversations_, cited, Book III, p. 18. This work, while it cannot be given the weight of direct quotations from Sun’s own writings or speeches, does contain a good deal about the policies of _min shêng_ which does not appear elsewhere. The author has sought to avoid citation of it where direct sources are available, since the nature of the material makes it by no means so authoritative as others might be. 200 Coker, cited, p. 551. 201 E. D. Harvey, _The Mind of China_, New Haven, 1933, deals extensively with these supernatural elements. The reader who turns to it should keep in mind the fact that the supernatural plays a rôle in China distinctly less important than that which it did, say, in medieval Europe, and that a strong agnostic, rather than a skeptical, spirit among the Chinese has preserved them from the grossest errors of superstition. 202 Latourette, cited, p. 129. Dr. Latourette’s sketch of Chinese religious thought is especially good, as indeed it might be, since he is one of the most celebrated American scholars in the field of Western religion in China. 203 H. G. Creel, work cited, p. 127.