2018年05月23日
I thought this remark rather singular
“Except in the management and directorship rental serviced apartment?” echoed Severnius.
“Of course they do not provide and disburse the funds, see to the building of school-houses, and dictate the policy of the schools!” I retorted. “But they teach them; you can hardly find a male teacher except at the head of a school, — to keep the faculty in order.”
Severnius refrained from comment upon this, seeing, I suppose, that I was getting a little impatient. He walked along with his head down. I think I neglected to say that we were taking a long tramp into the country, as we often did. In order to change the conversation, I asked him what sort of a government they had in Paleveria, and was delighted when he replied that it was a free republic.
“My country is a republic als o business registration in hong kong,” I said, proudly.
“We both have much to be thankful for,” he answered. “A republic is the only natural government in the world, and man cannot get above nature.”
, — at variance with progress and high civilization. But I let it pass, thinking to take it up at some future time.
“How do you vote here?” I asked. “What are your qualifications and restrictions?”
“Briefly told,” he replied. “Every citizen may vote on all public questions, and in all elections.”
“But what constitutes citizenship?”
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“Of course they do not provide and disburse the funds, see to the building of school-houses, and dictate the policy of the schools!” I retorted. “But they teach them; you can hardly find a male teacher except at the head of a school, — to keep the faculty in order.”
Severnius refrained from comment upon this, seeing, I suppose, that I was getting a little impatient. He walked along with his head down. I think I neglected to say that we were taking a long tramp into the country, as we often did. In order to change the conversation, I asked him what sort of a government they had in Paleveria, and was delighted when he replied that it was a free republic.
“My country is a republic als o business registration in hong kong,” I said, proudly.
“We both have much to be thankful for,” he answered. “A republic is the only natural government in the world, and man cannot get above nature.”
, — at variance with progress and high civilization. But I let it pass, thinking to take it up at some future time.
“How do you vote here?” I asked. “What are your qualifications and restrictions?”
“Briefly told,” he replied. “Every citizen may vote on all public questions, and in all elections.”
“But what constitutes citizenship?”
“A native-born is a citizen when he or she reaches maturity hong kong apartment for rent. Foreigners are treated as minors until they have lived as long under the government as it takes for a child to come of age. It is thus,” he added, facetiously, “that we punish people for presuming to be born outside our happy country.”
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