Professor Reinsch was born in Milwaukee in 1869. He received
his A. B. from the University of Wisconsin in 1892 and his
doctorate in 1898. He had the advantage of studying at the
University of Berlin and at Rome and Paris. He was assistant
professor of political science at his Alma Mater from 1899 to
1901, and full professor from 1901 to 1913, except for two
years, 1911 and 1912, when he held the Roosevelt
professorship at the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig.
Since 1913, he has been Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to China. His present address is the American
Legation, Peking, China.
Few men have had the advantages both in study and experience
that have come to Dr. Reinsch, and few have met these
advantages with keener love for truth and desire for
knowledge. He is a member of several learned societies of law
and political science, and is the author of many books on
these and related subjects. Some of these books have been
translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and German. The
selection given here is taken from "Intellectual Currents in
the Far East," and well illustrates the fact that deep
learning and perfect clearness of expression may well go
together in a literary production.