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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 215.

that we could learn from those other and archaeologically better docu-mented civilizations just mentioned. [[superscript]] (195) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (195) [[/superscript]] My first concrete realization of the great number of elements possessed in common by those civilizations on the one hand and by that of China on the other came from my perusal of a very important paper by Dr. Laufer, "Some Fundamental Ideas of Chinese Culture", in the [[underline]] Journal of Race Development [[/underline]], vol. V, 1914-1915, pp. 160-174.
     Abel Rémusat, over a century ago, put the matter very clearly when he stated ([[underline]] Mélanges asiatiques [[/underline]], tome I, page 98), "On a cru les nations civilisées de l'ancien monde plus complètement isolées les uns aux autres, qu'elles ne l'étaient réel^[[l]]ement, parce que les moyens qu'elles avaient pour communiquer entre elles, et les motifs qui les y engageaient, nous sommes également inconnus".  Had all later students held this fact consistently in mind in conducting their researches, progress in our knowledge would have been far more rapid and more firmly founded than it actually has been.
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  The S.S. [[underline]] Aquitania [[/underline]], on which I sailed from Southampton, reached New York on December 31, 1924. Most of the following month I spent in Washington. There Mr. Lodge and I thoroughly canvassed the situation in China as it affected our work.  The unexpected defection at a critical moment of Marshal Wu P'ei-fu's trusted lieutenant, the "Christian General" Fêng Yü-hsiang [[3 Chinese Characters]], had brought the civil war to an abrupt close. Nor were other indications wanting that affairs were tending toward a restoration of relative peace and order over much of the country. Although it is only fair to say that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts did not wholly share this optimistic view, and ceased from this time onward its contribution to the support of our enterprise, [[superscript]] (195-a) [[/superscript]] the 
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[[superscript]] (195-a) [[/superscript]] On the association of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with the Freer Gallery in the prosecution of our Chinese undertaking, see page 1.
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Freer Gallery of Art felt that there was sufficient improvement in conditions to warrant the continuation of its efforts in China.

[[underline]] Return to China. [[/underline]]
  Accordingly I set out on my return to our field of operations,
 

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