Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: A Racial Parallel

The Overlooked Factor

The Honest Cadi

A Racial Parallel

SOME White Christians engaged in driving Chinese Heathens out of an American town found a newspaper published in Peking in the Chinese tongue, and compelled one of their victims to translate an editorial. It turned out to be an appeal to the people of the Province of Pang Ki to drive the foreign devils out of the country and burn their dwellings and churches. At this evidence of Mongolian barbarity the White Christians were so greatly incensed that they carried out their original design.

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The Overlooked Factor

The Honest Cadi