He noted that when the British "look at China, they see that China has had exactly the opposite system for 2000 years, so they call China 'half-civilized.'
而「中國秦漢以來二千年適得其反，故西洋稱中國為『哈甫色維來意斯得』（half-civilized 半開化）其視中國，亦猶三代盛時之視夷狄也」。