Excerpt from The Woman Citizen's Library, Vol. 2 of 12: A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the Larger Citizenship State. It was something so different that it leads to confusion to try to put it in the same class. This is another way of illustrating the lesson that before dis cussing the nature oi the State we must decide which kind of State it is. If Switzerland, England and America are types of the State, then China before the Revolution was an anti-state. The fundamental prin ciples of the one so contradict those of the other that the western democrat may indeed say that until Japan and China established governments built on western model's Asia produced no State of his kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.