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Oh man, maybe you're right.

I scrolled to a random section and I read:

"In fact, [the west] have quite as much to learn from [China] as they from us, but there is far less chance of our learning it."

"[There's] a great eagerness to acquire Western learning, not simply in order to acquire national strength and be able to resist Western aggression, but because a very large number of people consider learning a good thing in itself"

Nothing has changed in 100 years...