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and the Czar was as polite as a bridegroom.
What the ultimate consequence would have been if Burlingame, that forceful apostle of justice, had lived to conduct affairs is problematical. Whether he could have steered the Chinese boat through the subsequent storm due to the reactionaries within the kingdom and the radicals without, is a question. He died in St. Petersburg. But his philosophy and the questions he raised are not dead.
