Nor was entrepreneurship absent. Here is an account of how the price of fuel in Ching-yang county in Shensi was reduced: County magistrate Lu Chen-fei submitted this memorial in 1629: I would observe that south of Ching-yang lies the Ching River, providing direct access to the Wei, on which there is a continuous flow of merchant shipping. Ching-yang, however, relies on the damming of waterways and loads are not carried by boat, the people being unaware of the advantages conferred on them by nature. Leaving aside the question of whether grain might be transported or timber floated in the form of rafts, this is even true of coal. Ching-yang is densely populated and has nothing to burn as firewood.

I was being drawn up into the clouds, and Papinian, who in my vision was wearing a tunica of light, was fluttering about, his butterfly wings flapping noisily.

Still and all we must come back to the basic fact that fundamentally our Nation, with all its faults, has everything to make it successful, and to bring its people happiness and comfort.

Exhaustion was defined as attonity, prostrating on the ground and no evade response when gasping [28 ,30 ] and the exhaustive exercise was uniformly carried out at 09:00.