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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
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beneath our consideration.

When we attain a certain degree of cultural develop-
ment, or get into the habit of bragging, each
insisting upon the superiority of his own. Thus
the Western culture is the best according to the Westeners
while Eastern culture is more satisfying to the
Eastern peoples. We Some of us, however, began to
feel desire that each possesses merits of worthy of
ad[ ]ation by both and demerits which might be cast
aside for the mutual benefit. Hence we should
advantage of each other's culture to the best of our [ ]ty.

In regard to Policial system and philosophy, [ ] we fell into
the habit of associating [ ] certain political systems
and philosophies with racial groupings. We say
, for example, that democracry is typical of the political
life of Westerners while and autocracy or bureaucracy of that of
Easterners. Yet it may be interesting to note in
passing that in the third century B.C. Mencius taught a democractic doctrine
that which the most enlightened democratic monarchist,