In fact, a society without the sense of honour in men, and without morality in its politics, cannot, I say, be held together, or at any rate, cannot last. For in such a society the policeman, upon whom the lawyer, politician, magistrate and president of a republic depend to carry out their fraud, will thus argue with himself. He is told that he must do his duty for the good of society. But he, the poor policeman, is also a part of that society_to himself and his family, at least, the most important part of that society. Now if by some other way than by being a policeman, perhaps by being an anti-policeman, he can get better pay to improve the condition of himself and his family, that also means the good of society. In that way the policeman must sooner or later come to the conclusion that, as there is .no such thing as a sense of honour and morality in politics, there is then no earthly reason why, if he can get better pay, which means also the good of society_no reason why, instead of being a policeman, he should not become a revolutionist or anarchist- In a society when the policeman once comes to the conclusion that there is no reason why, if he can get better pay, he should not become a revolutionist or anarchist_that society is doomed. Mencius said:_"When Confucius completed his Spring and Autumn Annals"_the book in which he taught the State religion of his _and in which he showed that the society of his time_in which there was then, as in the world to-day, no sense of honour in public men and no morality in politics_was doomed; when Confucius wrote that book, "the Jesuits and anarchists (lit. bandits) of his time, became afraid."

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