The modernization of political institutions, the study of these institutions until we have worked out and achieved the very best and most efficient methods whereby the whole community of mankind may work together under the direction of its chosen intelligences, is the common duty of every one who has a brain for the service.

She was a woman of strong personality, but too uneducatedin the modern senseto be able to realize that modernization was an absolute necessity for China if it was to remain an independent state.