Excerpt from Punch, Vol. 39: July 7, 1860 Punch. No, Sir, all is not Serene, and what serenity has endured for so many centuries has not been the repose of virtue, but the stagnation of impotence. You taught passive obedience, the divine right of Kings, and an outward and artificial morality, which, in combination with your theocratic doctrines, made the Chinaman an automaton. So he has become vicious and helpless, and we haire been obliged. To, invent Armstrong guns in order to rectify the defects of your system. Now, you are shut up. Or do you want to argufy? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.