The Indo Chinese Opium Trade Considered in Relation to Its History Morality
The Indo Chinese Opium Trade Considered in Relation to Its History Morality
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The Emperor's ' Special Commissioner may hourly be looked for. His ' purpose is to cut off utterly the source of this noxious ' abuse, to strip bare and root up this enormous evil/ In a conversation with Sir Rutherford Alcock at Pekin in May 1869, Wen-Seang, 'by far the most important man in ' the government/ admitting that there might be some of the literati imbued with a hostile feeling towards the foreigners, asked, how could it be otherwise ? ' They had often seen ' foreigners making war up...on the country : and then, again, ' how irreparable and continuous was the injury (not the ' benefit) which they saw inflicted upon the whole empire by ' the foreign importation of opium. . . . No doubt there was ' a very strong feeling entertained by all the literati and 'gentry as to the frightful evils attending the smoking of ' opium, its thoroughly demoralising effects, and the utter ' ruin brought upon all who once give way to the vice. 'They believed the extension of this pernicious habit was ' mainly due to the alacrity with which foreigners supplied ' the poison for their own profit, frequently regardless of the ' irreparable injury inflicted, and naturally they felt hostile to ' all concerned in the traffic/ The opinion expressed by the Chinese Foreign Board, in 4O THE INDO-CHINESE OPIUM TRADE.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Emperor's ' Special Commissioner may hourly be looked for. His ' purpose is to cut off utterly the source of this noxious ' abuse, to strip bare and root up this enormous evil/ In a conversation with Sir Rutherford Alcock at Pekin in May 1869, Wen-Seang, 'by far the most important man in ' the government/ admitting that there might be some of the literati imbued with a hostile feeling towards the foreigners, asked, how could it be otherwise ? ' They had often seen ' foreigners making war up...on the country : and then, again, ' how irreparable and continuous was the injury (not the ' benefit) which they saw inflicted upon the whole empire by ' the foreign importation of opium. . . . No doubt there was ' a very strong feeling entertained by all the literati and 'gentry as to the frightful evils attending the smoking of ' opium, its thoroughly demoralising effects, and the utter ' ruin brought upon all who once give way to the vice. 'They believed the extension of this pernicious habit was ' mainly due to the alacrity with which foreigners supplied ' the poison for their own profit, frequently regardless of the ' irreparable injury inflicted, and naturally they felt hostile to ' all concerned in the traffic/ The opinion expressed by the Chinese Foreign Board, in 4O THE INDO-CHINESE OPIUM TRADE.
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