Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?
They were quickly enlightened by the fact that these seemingly simple objects have been the same that had scared away Nian and kept their village safe.
Convinced of the importance of education, modern states 'invest'in institutions of learning to get back 'interest' in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders.