“THE VILLAIN OF THE PIECE"
ACCORDING TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS (By , Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) • LONDON, 12th December. The villain of the piece, in the eye sof all .archaeologists, is Ch’in Shih, first Emperor of. China. He has been called the Napoleon of the Far'East, and reigned 221-210 B.C. To establish his new Imperial regime, this royal monomaniac played the vandal. He destroyed all human evidence of the past. All political philosophies and records of the feudal past were annihilated, four hundred scholars and literati put to death, and tons of records on wood and bamboo burnt. Compared with this, the burning of the Alexandrian library was nothing. Ch’in Shih’s egoism wiped out, ,we might- almost say, the birth certificate of the human ra-ce. Some relics of the dim past, which could not be destroyed, were concealed by burial or by throwing them into rivers or lakes. A few of these priceless things have been recovered in later centuries, and now find their way to Burlington House, but often their i very purpose has been forgotten.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 January 1936, Page 7
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