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. At the present moment, when
the country is undergoing a crisis of danger and difficulty, we
must be careful of what may be done, or what may not, and select
only such measures as may be really of benefit to the empire."
I submit the above edict to the reader requesting him to study
it, and, if necessary to its understanding, to copy it, and see
if the Empress Dowager has not preserved the best there is in it,
viz., "the Peking University, and the middle schools in the
provincial capitals," "full liberty being given to the people
with reference to the lower schools in the sub-prefectures and
districts to do as they please." How much oil would be cast on
how many troubled waters can only be realized by the unfortunate
priests and dismissed officials and people upon whom "there need
be no compulsion"!
Three days after the foregoing, on September 29th, she issued
another edict purporting to come from the Emperor, ordering the
punishment of Kang Yu-wei and others of his confreres. Now, if it
is true that Kang Yu-wei advised the Emperor to behead Jung Lu
and imprison the Empress Dowager, for no cause whatsoever, how
would you have been inclined to treat him supposing you had been
in her place? The decree says:
"All know that we try to rule this empire by our filial piety
towards the Empress Dowager; but Kang Yu-wei's doctrines have
always been opposed to the ancient Confucian tenets
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