Nor shall I recount further incidents of the life that is now to end -- a life of wandering , always and everywhere haunted by an overmastering sense of crime in punishment of wrong and of terror in punishment of crime .
The chinese desire for posterity is so overmastering a passion that circumstances which ought to operate as an effectual check upon population , and which in many other countries would do so , appear to be in china relatively inefficient for that purpose .
