The Chinese have been beforehand with us in all our inventions--printing, artillery, aerostation, chloroform.

Only the discovery which in Europe at once takes life and birth, and becomes a prodigy and a wonder, remains a chrysalis in China, and is preserved in a deathlike state.

China is a museum of embryos.
Since we are in China, let us remain there a moment to note a peculiarity.

In China, from time immemorial, they have possessed a certain refinement of industry and art.

It is the art of moulding a living man.