The course of events in recent times has vindicated in a measure the Sinophilism of Voltaire and Quesnay. For the last sixty years the British civil service has been recruited on the principle of open competitive examination.... it has come to be recognized.that the offices of the permanent administration cannot be abandoned to democratic partisan patronage any more than to mere royal favouritisme or caste privilege, but that the vast complexity of the modern state requires the most rigorous selection according to intellectual qualifications. (查看原文)
The event of the last two decades have compelled admission that the sovereign peoples may not be able to maintain civilization unless they can think more constructively than hitherto on social and international questions. (查看原文)
0 有用 Villain 2012-08-28 23:55:31
佩服！赫德逊专攻中西交往的著作。从古典文明到近代文明，中西的融合、对抗淋漓尽致。