ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author entirely disclaims any power to forecast China's destiny or influence upon the rest of the world, he think people may look at the present direction of movement, estimate the strength of the various forces and see what possibilities open up. Three broadly-differentiated possibilities: disintegration, denationalization and reintegration, open up before China to-day. The principle of the International Consortium seems to be a good one, and the author thinks that there is a disposition now on the part of foreign capitalists to deal generously with China, if the task of financial reconstruction is seriously undertaken. China suffered from two causes. In the first place, China's early development of a high type of civilization left her facile princeps among the surrounding peoples. In the second place, China was geographically so situated that it lost the stimulation of interchange of thought with the civilizations developing around the Mediterranean basin.
