One may say of it that it is the adult form of a lower type of mind-specification.
The second effect is scarcely less patent.

How slow their progress has been, if for centuries now it can be called progress at all, is world-known.

Chinese conservatism has passed into a proverb.

The pendulum of pulsation in the Middle Kingdom long since came to a stop at the medial point of rest.

Centre of civilization, as they call themselves, one would imagine that their mind-machinery had got caught on their own dead centre, and now could not be made to move.