And there is no reason to question their good intentions.

Indeed, it may safely be asserted that no people is more consciously well-meaning than the children of the Fatherland.

It is only that, with their archaic preconceptions of what is right and meritorious, their best intentions spell malevolence when projected into the civilised world as it stands today.

And by no fault of theirs.

Nor is it meant to be intimated that their rate of approach to the accepted Occidental standard of institutional maturity will be unduly slow or unduly reluctant, so soon as the pertinent facts of modern life begin effectively to shape their habits of thought.