In a word, he went to Shanghai as my agent, and the outcome of his work there is the present Chinese constitution.

Of course, as holds good in all human affairs, events did not follow the precise track mapped out for them.

But, on the whole, he and I were satisfied.

China is awake at last.

The giant has stirred, and, if his first uncertain steps have deviated from the open road of reform, he will never again sink into the torpor of the past centuries.