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CHINESE CHARACTERISTICSCHAPTER IV. POLITENESS ''THERE are two quite different aspects in which the politeness of the Chinese, and of Oriental peoples generally, may be viewed — the one of appreciation, the other of criticism. The Anglo-Saxon, as we are fond of reminding ourselves, has, no doubt, many virtues, and among them is to be found a very large percentage of fortiter in re, but a very small percentage of suaviter in modo. When, therefore, we come to the Orient, and find the vast populations of the immense Asiatic continent so greatly our superiors in the art of lubricating the f...