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范约翰《论报刊》和梁启超《论报馆有益于国事》比较  Strength or weakness of nations varies directly with the openness or obstruction of channels of intercommunication. If his arteries be obstructed a person sickness. If culture be not disseminated the people remain dull rustics. Because highways were unopened, Ch’in and Yueh [pre-imperial kingdoms, corresponding to modern Shensi and Chekiang] each ignored the other’s state, whether prosperity or want, counting it a matter of no concern. Because dialects were unlike, Min and Yueh [corresponding to Fukien and Kuangtung] regarded the Middle Kingdoms [i.e. the early China proper] as foreign countries. And the provinces of the nation do thus even today. Because the government and the people are not in mutual touch, the imperial benevolence can not permeate the empire and diffuse its benefits….Civil servants can juggle words and intrigue one with another to corrupt ends. The Chinese people and the foreign people are not in mutual touch and have not the acquaintanceship proper between one’s self and one’s neighbors. The tradition-bound scholars [i.e. conservative officials] simply talk nonsense. In consequence for several decades China has suffered humiliation.  To remove these obstacles and achieve mutual understanding, there are many means but the first step is a public press. To lack ears and eyes, throat and tongue, is to be utterly incapacitated. The nations of the world stand side by side today, intimately as neighbors. The Chinese people, within our own country, should be like co-dwellers in one room. But we know nothing of the affairs among adjacent nations. And, worse, we do not hear or even care to inquire what our own countrymen are doing. This is having ears and eyes and yet not having ears and eyes. Although the government has plans and projects for the public good, it can not publish them to the people. Although the people suffer bitter distress, they can not report their grievances to the rulers. This is having thro