How should it endure that the spirits of the great dead should be insulted by the everlasting visitation of this scourge?
"Then did patriots arise like a whirlwind, or like a cloud which is suddenly manifested in the firmament.

They began with the Canton insurrection; then Peking was alarmed by Wu Yueeh's bomb (1905).

A year later Hsue Hsi-lin fired his bullet into the vitals of the Manchu robber-chief, En Ming, Governor of Anhui.

Hsiung Cheng-chi raised the standard of liberty on the Yang-tsze's banks; rising followed rising all over the empire, until the secret plot against the Regent was discovered, and the abortive insurrection in Canton startled the capital.

One failure followed another, but other brave men took the place of the heroes who died, and the empire was born again to life.
The bandit Manchu court was shaken with pallid terror, until the cicada threw off its shell in a glorious regeneration, and the present crowning triumph was achieved.