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A distinguished sinologue is the doctor, one of the finest Chinese scholars in the Empire, author of "China and the Roman Orient," "Ancient Porcelain," and an elaborate "Textbook of Documentary Chinese," which is in the hands of most of the Customs staff in China, for whose assistance it was specially written. Dr. Hirth is a German who has been many years in China.
F. Hirth, whose Chinese house is on the highest part of Chungking in front of a temple, which, dimly seen through the mist, is the crowning feature of the city.
"Today," Hirth truly declares, "only love and justice can count as honorable motives in marriage. The modern man accords to the beloved wife and life-companion the same freedom which he himself took before marriage, and perhaps still takes in marriage. If she makes no use of it, as is to be hoped so much the better!
Rev. the Hon. C. Lyttelton, Training of the Young in Laws of Sex, p. 42. See, e.g., R.W. Taylor, Treatise on Sexual Disorders, 1897, pp. 74-5. Syphilis developed a few days after the wedding. Hirth adds, briefly, that the results were terrible.
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