Chapter 34 New Democracy (November 30, December 30, 1902)

Narrative In the world there must first be theory and then facts, and theorists are the mother of facts.All theories are based on actual facts. Although the theories are as noble as religious theories and as profound as philosophical theories, the result of their purpose is to improve personality and increase humanity. The words of the law, the words of the group, the words of the livelihood, let alone the words.Therefore, a theory that does not benefit the actual facts cannot be called a true theory. Of course, there are two kinds of theories: the theory of theory, and the theory of facts.The theorist of theories is also the mother of theories of facts.The scope of the two cannot be drawn.In comparison, religion, philosophy, etc., can be called theoretical theories; political science, law, group studies, livelihood studies, etc., can be called practical theories.Of course, there is a difference between them, that is, in the section of livelihood science, there are so-called livelihood principles, there are so-called applied livelihood scholars, and there are so-called livelihood policies.Comparing the first category with the second category, the former is a theory of theory, and the latter is a theory of actual facts; comparing the first and second categories with the third category, the former two are theories of theory, and the latter is a theory of actual facts. theory.It's all the same if you push it to learn from others.

Is there a sequence between the theory of theory and the theory of reality?Said: The two follow each other.When the level of people's intelligence is still low, they don't have the knowledge of inductive synthesis, but take the current and recent problems and study their pros and cons. Therefore, the theory of facts comes first, and the theory of theory comes second.Although, these theories, their fallacies are ten to nine.To improve the wisdom of the people, it is to seek the common law in everything, to study and explore its principle, and to obtain the principle of the common law is to infer and apply it to the various phenomena of group governance, so as to break the disadvantages and seek the truth. Therefore, the theory Theories come first, and theories about practical things come second.This is also the class that has been taught by the academic circles of various countries.Our country has been in the era of the narrowest, most mixed, and most fallacious "practical theories" since now; as of today, the so-called theoretical theories have only begun to sprout; if the correct practical theories are still far away and also.Are there pros and cons of both?Said: Nothing.A theory of theory has a wide range and a noble purpose, but it cannot be used without a theory based on facts; real.The two are interdependent and cannot be separated.Those who want to use theory to change the world must do both.

Yu wrote "Xin Min Shuo" in order to explore the root of the corruption and degeneration of our people, and compare them with other countries' developed and progressive ones, so that the people can know where they are suffering, and use self-policing and self-improvement. The most empty one is also, but the people of our country are not enough to speak in the real world today.Although, as a theorist, one must seek the results from the facts; without a theory of the facts, the facts will never be seen.Today's disciples hate the corruption and degeneration of our country, so what is the reason for those who save and cure them?What is the reason for those who are envious of the development and progress of other countries, so they follow suit?This is the most urgent question for our people today.With my lack of education and ignorance, I haven't seen what is happening in the theories of Chinese and foreign philosophers. In addition, China has a vast land and resources, the nature of the people is complicated, the historical heritage is far away, and the external feelings are changing day by day. Statistics, without proportion, are now intended to study and determine various problems in a group of people. How easy is it to say?Although, the responsibility of the citizens cannot be ignored;I don't want to speculate, but I want to have a more practical theory, so as to discuss and make suggestions with those who love the group and the country. This is the origin of "Xin Min Yi".

I think about it, and I think about it again, almost all the phenomena of group governance in China today should be destroyed from the root and cleared up, and those who remove the old and introduce the new.According to the principle of natural evolution, things compete with each other, and a nation that does not adapt to the current situation cannot survive on its own.For thousands of years, our country has established itself on the ground with the principle of secrecy, and its competitors are only in this group. The number of good and bad is roughly equal. However, part of this group, and others, are often biased enough to compensate.Therefore, when a group is combined and counted, it is felt that it still follows the common law of evolution, and the progress of the day and the month, but some people are a little better than the past. The people of the country feel at ease because of each other, saying that the organization governed by the group is not enough to be a disease.Once you meet the superiors of other nations, you will be out of position, you will fail, and you will be in trouble. The people of the country will look at each other in horror, knowing it but not knowing why.Those who have a little knowledge say that it is all caused by the corruption of the government and the shackles of officials.Husband's government and the lack of status of officials are an important root cause of the degeneration of a country, so what can I say?And it is too early to say that apart from this one end, the rest are all perfect, can be reformed without any problems, and can survive in the competition field of the five continents!Our country is known in the world as the oldest civilization, when it was three thousand years ago in Europe and the West, and I declare that the cultural relics are enough to match the history of the middle ages.Because of self-satisfaction and obsession with old habits, I have read it for more than 3,000 years, and the so-called family organization, country organization, village organization, social organization, and even customs, etiquette, academics, ideology, morality, law, and all phenomena of religion, Still, of course, the same as it was three thousand years ago.Such old organizations and old phenomena, in the early stages of evolution, were they not greatly affected by group cultivation?And Wu Zhifu conforms to the past, but cannot adapt to the present. Those who conform to the group cannot adapt to the world.The reason why it causes debilitation is complicated and not a single way, so it is also a heavy prescription rather than a single technique for a cure.Woohoo, how can this be to blame only one or two people, and only ask for one or two things!From now on, I have made general observations on various aspects, picked out the root cause of the disease, and referred to the facts prevailing in today's civilized countries. As "New Minyi".

Prohibition of early marriage proposals Those who talk about the group must rely on the family, those who talk about the family must start with marriage, and marriage is the first place in group governance.There are different types of marriage customs in China that should be improved, but the most important one is early marriage. The more savage the man, the sooner he marries; the more civilized he is, the later he marries.According to the words of various statisticians, the calendar cannot be falsely accused.The time of marriage is closely related to the time of physical maturity and aging. They are the cause of each other and the fruit of each other. (However, if it matures early and ages early, so it has to marry early, then B is the result of A; because of early marriage, the inherited species is more precocious and premature, then A is the result of B.) Sociological axioms, all living things should be in the process of evolution The degree of maturity, and the period of maturity, varies for a long time.Evolvers have to experience many years to reach maturity. Comparing humans with birds and beasts, the delay is obvious.Although they are both human beings, it is not the case that the inferior ones mature quickly, and the superior ones mature later, and the number of superiors and inferiors is often proportional to the time of marriage.Indians are the earliest to get married, and those who have children at the age of fifteen are considered common, and their decline is also very rapid.Europeans are the latest to marry (especially the Central Teutonic people), and those who are not married at thirty are considered common, but their nation is strong and strong, old and strong.The marriage of Chinese and Japanese is later than that of India and earlier than that of Europe, so the period of their maturity and aging is also in between.Therefore, if you want to observe the level of national literature, it is only about their marriage.That is to say, among the same ethnic group, those who live in the valley and the wilderness, the year of marriage must be regarded as earlier than that of the people in the city, and their level of civilization is always lower than that of the city. .

I would like to speak out about the harm of early marriage: (1) Harmful to health preservation.Young men and women are not physically mature, and if they are allowed to live in the house, they will lose their vitality and do great harm.Not to mention this, the elderly are less lustful and have a stronger self-government, so they can often exercise restraint and not overpower their sexuality; if they are young, their intelligence is immature, their experience is relatively shallow, and they often indulge in the lust of the flesh for a while. To be happy, but to forget the suffering of lifelong chronic illness, and to commit suicide because of this, is quite natural.I heard an ethicist say: "everyone has his own duty to himself." Because of human life, today's interests often run counter to tomorrow's interests. Indulging in lust for a while is depraved in the future The severest stage of the sea of ​​bitterness.Therefore, the life expectancy of my wife is sixty years, and when analyzed and divided, there are twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifteen days. Since the benefits and disadvantages of each day are different, one day can be regarded as one person.However, in the past sixty years, it is as if there are 20,000 people with different interests and interests, continuing each other and living side by side. .Among the more than 20,000 people, if there is one person who indulges excessively and suffers a torso injury, the latter will be listed as the disaster caused by his indulgence. The worst case will die in the middle way, and the second person will also wither half his life. Useless.If you die in the middle way, it is the self of today, and it will kill the self of tomorrow; if half a life is withered, it is the self of today, and it will invade the freedom of the self of tomorrow.If one person kills one person, one person invades another person's freedom, he must be punished according to the law according to the crime of being a victim of the group. What's more, if one person is used today, he will kill thousands of people in the future and invade the future. The freedom of thousands and thousands of people in the sun is so serious that it can't be counted by a coincidence.If a group of people kills each other and invades each other's freedom, then the group cannot be formed, and everyone understands this.From this point of view, if everyone in a group commits suicide and everyone invades their freedom, then the result of the group effect is even more similar.Does the husband know that early marriage is a sharp knife for suicide, and an autocratic regime that invades freedom.Husband and I, the Chinese nation, do not have a lively atmosphere, no courageous spirit, and no courageous courage. Although there is no one reason for this, early marriage is also to blame.If one person is like this, he will be a waste person; if the accumulation of people makes a country, it will be a waste country.This is why China is weaker than the rest of the world!

(2) Harmful to seed transmission.The Chinese people are known all over the world for their kindness.Considering the number of people in the world, our country is one of the third, and it is enough to be proud of it.Although, can you rely on it?According to biologists: the number of things produced by the heaven and the earth every day is innumerable and inconceivable, so that those who give birth to it will grow into it immediately, and it is produced by a male and a female (whether it is a plant , for animals, for human beings.) less than a thousand years, but its descendants fill the whole world, and there is no place left.However, what grows, swims, flies, walks, crawls, walks, and makes things in this world today is nothing more than one of the billions of eggs, wombs, and births of the same kind.There will be one incubator for one billion, one for the one who will be raised for one, and one for the one who will live for one million.Therefore, the reason why ladies are more valuable than things, and why civilized people are more valuable than savages, is not because they are good at hatching and nurturing, but because they are good at living and growing.The essence of seed transmission is as it is.There are different ways to live and grow up, but it is especially important to have a strong body and proper education.Therefore, those who want to fulfill the obligation of passing on the seed to a country must (first) be of sufficient age to be qualified to be parents; (2) must be able to bear the responsibility of being parents.If so, it will be able to obtain good seeds for a country; otherwise, it will waste its seed propagation power in useless places.It is not peaceful, but if the seeds of a country are raised, it will be corrupted, and there is no one who will not be emaciated in the country.In my China, the family is the standard. (Westerners take one person as the standard, and China takes a family as the standard. The reason is quite long, and I will discuss it separately.) The words of ancient sages said: "There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and there are no descendants. It is great." The whole country trembled at this.For those who have children, as soon as they are out of their infancy, their elder relatives often make it a big deal to plan for marriage on behalf of them.Even those who have grandchildren at the age of thirty, the Qi family regards it as a family celebration, and the society regards it as a respected person.Doesn't his meaning say: "This is the general who will prosper my queen."But Wu Zhifu is a showy but unreal species, and it is better to have it than to have it without it.According to a statistician: the disabled, the sick, the young, the weak, the dull, and the criminals in all countries have children born to parents with a high rate of early marriages. (The lists of statistical books written by American Marles Smith and Japanese Wu Wencong are very detailed, so I will not quote them here.) Because their parents' body and nerves are not developed, their qualifications are not enough to raise good children. (The commentator may refute this theory, and cite the sons of early marriages among ancient and modern celebrities as evidence. I don’t know this special exception, but I can’t give an exception in any discussion. It must be based on the majority. As he advocates Feminist advocates refer to one or two excellent women among women, thinking that women's brain power is not inferior to men's evidence; and those who defend the imperial examination in China say that there are often talents in the imperial examination, and they think that the imperial examination is harmless, which is not true. Kato Hiroshi once wrote a treatise on "Answers to Guest Difficulties" in "Tian Ze Bai Hua", which is not cited today.) Therefore, the children of those who married early were born at the time of their first marriage. Since they are not qualified enough, they cannot get good seeds; and After ten or twenty years of marriage, the man and woman have matured, and it is advisable to assume that the child is good, but this is not the case. In the ten or twenty years, the first common law that is harmful to health preservation has been violated, and the death is exhausted. Therefore, both parents are weak, and because they pass on their weak seeds to their late-born children, they are always weak.Husband, if I marry early and give birth to a weak son, the son will be weaker than me; if the son gives birth to a weak grandson through early marriage, the grandson will be weaker than my son.If the transmission is weak, it will get worse every time. Although my ancestors have the vigor and vigor of a tiger for a lifetime, how can they be destroyed by the number of transmissions?Suppressing the weak species is not beneficial to the future of the parents, but it is very tiring.If the children of a family are weak, the family will fall; if the children of a country are weak, the country will perish.In the past, if a Spartan had a child, he had to go through the inspection of the government. If he thought that his physical fitness was not suitable for the qualifications of a Spartan citizen, the lanes and alleys would be cold, and he would not care about abandoning it. How cruel is it?If it is not the case, then its race is not enough to compete better than the world.However, the Chinese only consider having more children as the greatest happiness in life, and don't ask what the children are doing. If this is the purpose, early marriage would rather be a policy?The reason why the number of Chinese people is the only one in the world is that it is the gift of early marriage; the reason why the power of the Chinese people is weaker than the world is that it is the reward of early marriage.The reason why the husband nation is able to establish the heaven and the earth is that there are so many of them?But its strong ears!A proverb says: "One osprey is worse than a hundred birds of prey." Tens of thousands of British troops (there are only 80,000 British standing troops stationed in India now.) To control India with 300,000,000 people, it's hard to beat.There are no less than a few million people living abroad in our country, but they are people; the number of foreigners living in our country is no more than ten thousand, and they hold our sovereignty.The multiplicity of the species is solid enough?In the past, standing in a place where there was no competition from outside, the winners and losers were all in the same family, why couldn't they survive on their own?Those who come from the swell are thinner than me every day.Therefore, from now on, unless we eliminate the weak species and pass on the strong species alone, there is no way to continue the sacrifice of our ancestors.The ancient sages said that "there are three kinds of unfilial piety, and the greatest is to have no descendants", which is exactly what they said.It would be a crime for a family to have no heirs; what's more, for a country to have no heirs?After wanting to have a country, he must forbid early marriage.

(3) Harmful to Yangmeng.The end of the way of national education, and the teaching of the family is the same.Children are most imitative when they are hugged and wrapped around their knees.Parents who show a lawable personality and guide them with the germination of their knowledge will be able to get twice the result with half the effort in teaching in schools and in society in the future.This meaning can be said by scholars who have studied education a little bit.Ordinary people must have completed their studies and have a lot of experience, and then their speech and behavior can be a model for younger generations. Therefore, they must be twenty-five or thirty years old to have the ability to be parents.Those who marry early, despise the bow, although they still have a childlike innocence, but they are suddenly like a scorpion, and they suddenly take the responsibility of educating their children on behalf of Yi Guohe.Husbands don't have one or two early-wisdom people who don't live up to their responsibilities, but those who miss their babies with unskillful prescriptions are ten to nine.It is not enough for me to miss my son, but I don't know my son. I can't be selfish. He is really a member of the nation and the future master of a country.The future master of a country has been killed by the hands of today's tyrants, is there still a king in the country?Therefore, early marriage cannot be prevented, and national education will be useless.

(4) Harmful to study.Early marriage is not only a harm to future education, but also a harm to present education.The general education rules in various countries are seven or eight years of primary school, five or six years of middle school, and three or four years of university. Therefore, those who want to receive a complete education must have more than fifteen or six years of experience.Ordinary people start teaching at the age of seven or eight, and the achievement of a specialized study must not wait until the age of twenty-two or three.Those who preceded this are all so-called school age.In this age of study, the ups and downs of life, prosperity and decline, are determined accordingly.If there is some ignorance and waste, then its wisdom, virtue, and strength will definitely be inferior to others, and it will not be able to compete with others in the realm of natural selection.If one person is deserted and useless, that person will be inferior in the group; if a group of people are all deserted and useless, then the group will be inferior in the world.Those who marry early take the most important part of their schooling age, and suddenly throw themselves into the field of spring flowers and autumn moons, lingering songs and weeping, and lingering in love with the bed. I also have no time to engage in high-level careers, so I have to change to low-level labor to support myself.There are more and more descendants of this generation, that is to say, a group of middle and lower ethnic groups is increasing day by day.This is the reason why the national qualifications are gradually becoming humble.

(5) Harmful to the national economy.According to the axiom of livelihood, there must be many who benefit, and few who share the benefit, and then the country will never fall.Therefore, the people of a country must be independent and self-employed, not dependent on others, and not burdened by others, so that the people will do their best and enjoy the rewards of their best efforts. There is always more than enough in a country. The source of this national power is Shu Ye.According to this common law, the old man must measure his own income at the age of one year. In addition to self-support, he is still enough to look down on his wife, and then he can get married.Before the wife was twenty, her power to govern life was not fully enriched, which is the result of the situation.Therefore, after the age of study is over, it is necessary to stick to a self-supporting and self-living career, so that it will not be tiring or self-tiring, and the husband can talk about marriage.Those who get married this morning, themselves depend on their parents for food. Once they are married, it will take less than a few years, and their children will come together. I do not have the power to manage the birth, so I have to still rely on my parents.My husband and I are directly dependent on my parents, and the burden on the ancestors is already too much; even my wife and I are indirectly dependent on my parents. Although my parents are extremely productive, their safety can be achieved by one person. Is it the responsibility of dozens of mouths?Husband and I Chinese folklore, most of them take the responsibility of one person to bear the responsibility of dozens of mouths, so the benefits generated are not enough to repay the share, and the total colonization of a country is declining, but the blame is not on the person who burdens others. tiring person.If you can't afford to support your wife and get married indiscriminately, you are making a career out of being tired, and you are a group of moths, especially shameless.Not only that, but there is a proverb: "The poor always have many children." The number of children of the poor is not a common rule in physiology.Because of his early marriage, men and women live in the house for too long, and he has nothing to do but make children as his business. The more children he has, the more poor he will be.Those who are poor are not the cause of having many children, but the fruit of having many children.If you are poor and have many children, you will inevitably be poor but not available. The brave will be thieves, the cunning will be sticks, the weak will be beggars, and so will their children.Born in such a family, it must be incapable of education, how can it be questioned?Since they are born with weak qualities, and have no education to enlighten their wisdom and cultivate their virtues, and are forced by hunger and cold, they cannot live on their own, so men are hooligans and women are prostitutes.But its impact is not only on livelihood?A group of moral laws, and will be wiped out.Who knows that the disaster of early marriage is so severe and intense!

According to survey reports by statisticians, the more civilized the country, the later its people get married; the more barbaric the country, the earlier its people get married.Therefore, among the modern countries, the average age of marriage is the earliest in Russia, followed by Japan; (China has no statistics, so there is no way to verify it, and it must be earlier than Japan.) The latest is Norway, followed by Prussia, followed by England . (According to the report of Mallesmee, the average Prussian male is 29 years old, and the female is 26 years old; the British average male is 28 years old, and the female is 26 years old. ; The average age of men in Norway is 30, and the age of women is 27.) However, the rate of delays in various countries is increasing day by day. (In the United Kingdom, in 1880, the average age of first-married men was 25.08 months, and the average age of first-married women was 24.04 months. And in 1890, the average age of men was 26.04 months. The average age of a woman is 24.08 months. In the past ten years, the delay rate has been increasing. And the number of days for British people who get married under the age of 21 is reduced by one day. In 1874, the number of men among hundreds There were only eight underage (adult age at 21) marriages, and only 22 women. In 1890, there were only five men, and only nineteen women.) In Prussia, early marriages were common. Will almost die. (In 1891, according to the national statistics, the number of men who married under the age of 100 was only 0.26%, and the number of women was 16.05%. The ups and downs of a country, is it so simple?The only thing to worry about is that in a country, the more noble the practice, the later he will marry; the lower the practice, the earlier he will marry.Mostly miners, printers, manufacturing workers, etc. are the earliest, and writers, technicians, politicians, priests, soldiers, etc. are the latest. (According to the statistics of the United Kingdom in 1884, when miners and workers got married, the average age of men was 24 years old, and the average age of women was 22 or 3 years. The average age of freelance and independent men was 31 years old. Strange, the average age of a woman is twenty-six. The ratio is the same in all countries.) However, the rate of getting married sooner or later can judge the quality of a person's personality;Woohoo, don't read it!Not scary! Sociologists say: There are many disadvantages of early marriage, but there are also many disadvantages of late marriage. (1) The couples are far apart in age, so their marriage is not based on love but on the basis of carnal desire, which will be harmful to morals and customs; Few, and even practice the method of avoiding concubines, so that the way of population reproduction will be cut off. Modern France is an example; (3) they live alone, which is very human. All kinds of evils are brewed, because they are harmful to health and corrupt customs.Among the three disadvantages, the first two are not what China should consider today, and the third also depends on the way of education.If moral education is not prosperous, even if you marry early today, the disadvantages will be avoided?Therefore, I think that in today's China, if it wants to improve the governance of the masses, it must forbid early marriage! The "Book of Rites" says: "Men marry at thirty, and women marry at twenty." Yuxi!How far is the essence of the creation of the sage? These kinds of problems, today's scholars who worry about the country, may think that they are not urgent.Although, the reason for the prosperity and decline of a country must not be due to one or two people or one or two things. It will make the citizens of a country able to stand in this competitive world and have the qualifications to win.Therefore, it is the way, and it must be based on improving the common customs.Japan's political form, compared with Europe and the United States, is more specific than trivial, and the degree of civilization is still far behind that of the latter, and the common customs cannot be changed suddenly.Even if the purpose of political innovation in our country has been achieved, those who seek to make progress thereafter must devote themselves to these issues.If the husband and the general customs do not advance, it will not achieve political goals, and it has not been seen that it can be achieved.Therefore, our people don't have to wait for it, thinking that we should do that first, and this is temporarily set aside as a slow plan.If you see that it is good, you will move it if it is not enough; if you see it is bad, you must overcome it.There are so many obligations to be fulfilled in the world, how can we choose what to do?What's more, there is no need to rely on the power of the government to deal with these problems. Everyone thinks of it and solves it on their own, and it will be enough to move the government for a long time.A few years ago, the theory of banning footbinding was clearly effective.Therefore, it is now "Xin Min Yi", and there are often three compliments on such matters.Those who worry about the time may learn from it!Otherwise, I would rather not see my husband. In today's Japan, the improvement of customs and society was first advocated, but at the end of the day, the talk has not changed.Things are so difficult, we can find a solution.Author acknowledgment.