"The last absolute ruler we had was one of those great men that God in
His infinite wisdom brings into the world at stated intervals to
exercise a dominating influence in human affairs and to give a fresh
impetus to human progress. Of the great men that we class with him are
the following: Confucius, Buddha , Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell,
Abraham Lincoln. The first thing he did when he became Emperor was to
summon sixty of the most liberal minded men and women in the empire to
the palace to draw up under his supervision a political, civil and penal
code, which with slight modification is in force at the present time,
and he called all the newspaper editors into conference and asked them
to assist him in promoting the welfare of the people and then he issued
a decree granting liberty of speech and of the press throughout Eurasia,
which he announced as the name of the Empire in future, and the reason
that he gave for it was that his people were composed of a great many
nationalities and by dividing the empire into districts and numbering
them in arithmetical order he abolished the old political divisions and
he also decreed that the present language we speak should be the
official language of the empire for the ancient language of the ruling
class had created a bitter feeling amongst great numbers of the people
and besides the present had become the commercial language of the world.
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