this extraordinary
subject without any cause? If the situation should become such that
the President should be compelled to carry out his threat and desert
the Palace, what would you say and do then?

Or, perhaps, you are measuring the lordly conduct of a gentleman
with the heart of a mean man, saying to yourself that what the
President has been saying cannot be the truth, but, as Confucius has
said, "say you are not but make a point to do it," and that, knowing
that he would not condemn you, you have taken the risk. If so, then
what do you take the President for? To go back on one's words is an
act despised by a vagabond. To suggest such an act as being capable
of the President is an insult, the hideousness of which cannot be
equalled by the number of hairs on one's head. Any one guilty of
such an insult should not be spared by the four hundred million of
people.

XI. THE CHOU AN HUI AND THE LAW

Next let me ask if you have read the Provisional Constitution, the
Provisional Code, the Meeting and Association Law, the Press
Regulations, the various mandates bearing on the punishment of
persons who dare conspire against the existing form of state? Do you
not know that you, as citizens of the Republic, must in duty bound
observe the Constitution and obey the laws and mandates? Yet you
have dared openly to call together your partisans and incite a
revolution (the recognized definition in political science for
revolution is "to change the existing form of state"). As the
Judiciary have not been courageous enough to deal with you since you
are all so closely in touch with the President, you have become
bolder still and carry out your sinister scheme in broad daylight. I
do not wish to say what sort of peace you are planning for China;
but this much I know, that the law has been violated by you to the
last letter. I will be silent if you believe that a nation can be
governed without law. Otherwise tell me what you have got to say?

It is quite apparent that you will not be satisfied with mere
shouting and what you aim at is the actual fulfilment of your
expectations. That is, you wish that once the expected monarchy is
established it may continue for ever. Now by what principle can such
a monarchy continue for ever, except that the laws and orders of
that dynasty be obeyed, a