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    froheproanaffairs.”

    forthestrikingfactisthatesehistorybenvelydividedintolesof

    eighthundredyears.ealebeginsilitarilystrong

    dynasty,erturiesofirife.thenfollowfourorfive

    hundredyearsofpeace,honegeofdynasty,sueededbysuessivewaves

    ofovalofthecapitalfrohenorthtothesouth.then

    essionandrivalrybethandsouthhincreasingiy,

    folloionunderafnrule,hele.historythen

    repeatsitselfandhtheunificationofaagainundereserulethereisanew

    bloofculture.

    theparallelisfeventshineayfoldeditselfhanunreasonable

    eandsequence.dr.leentions,forinstahe

    uakingofagreatengineeriedhfatalregularityandat

    theexactstageineayaly,iediatelyatthebeginningofaneof

    culture:forthefirstle,thebuildingofthegreathedynastyand

    thelossalpalaces,theofangkuoanflagration

    lastingthreenths;forthesendle,thebuildingofthegrandaluhe

    sideernifitpalaotedfortheirgrandeurandluxury;

    andforthethirdle,therebuildingofthegreathassurvived

    tothepresentday,theopeningupofseveralnes,andthebuildingof

    theperloofthengdynasty,whowasalso

    fausfreatyunglolibrary.

    1theajoardapril,1931.

    theselesprise:ifrohedynastytotheendofthesixdynastiesand

    thetartarinvasion221b.thesui

    dynastytothengolinvasion5891367,veringabout780years;and3the

    deingdynastytothepresentti,ale

    ued,butselfisixhundredyearsh

    azingfidelitytothepreviouspatte.thepeaceoffivehundredyearshwas

    grantedusuhengandnchudynastiesseetohaverunitsdueurse,

    andarkedthefirstbigwaveof

    inteeehecresdoofdisorderandofinteeestrife,h

    sofarhasliveduptoitstraditionintherevalofthecapitalfroekingto

    nankingin1927.

    itisalstprophetiotethatadivisiohandsouthandthe

    subjugationofnortheabyafheoutstandingtwohundred

    yearshavee.1

    thefollosarereproducedherepartlyfortheirintrinsiterest,and

    partlyberyofaspoliticalhistoryofovertwo

    thousandyearshinthespeofaprintedpage.thecurvesrepresentthefrequency

    ofhinaproper.

    dr.leealsontiothat

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