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But excessive worship of the past--which resulted, in practice, from Confucian study--and excessive resistance to what was new and different had a suffocating effect: the reaction, which began with the birth of the Republic and expanded with the Communist take-over, was inevitable.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 4 : China, Japan, Tibet > # 21