ABSTRACT
in a hundred years or so from now, when the rocket-ships carry the brave mortals of this planet on round trips to the moon, we shall be able to discover what truth there is in the belief that the Great Wall of China would be the last bit of man’s handiwork to fade from sight if one departed skywards from the earth. Yet without waiting for the judgments of these travellers of the future, it is difficult to dispute that the ‘Ten Thousand Li Wall’ is the greatest single monument that any would-be Emperor of the World has left behind him. ‘Ch’in Shih Huang is gone,’ says a Chinese proverb, ‘but the Wall still stands.’
