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to swell the hostile ranks. There will be but hollowness within and bitterness without; and danger will never cease to menace the State.

On reading the above, the Prince of Ch'in cancelled the edict respecting the proscription of foreigners, and I was restored to office.[1]


  1. “The iniquity of the writer,” observes a commentator, “must not blind us to the beauty of his appeal.”