. The Open court. Chwang-tze. (Cir. B. C. 350.) Most prominent of Taoist philosophers. (After Okyo, Japanese artist of the eighteenth century.) It was the same with Lau-tsz, Chwang-tsz, and Mencius. Butthere is a great contrast between the teaching of the Tauists andthat of the Confucianists. Quiet contemplation is a very differentthing from the teaching which makes it the duty of a man to serve CHINESE EDUCATION. 697 his country. The Tauists resemble the Quakers, who cannot servethe State in any public office because their principles forbid themto take an oath. The Confucianists resemble the
. The Open court. Chwang-tze. (Cir. B. C. 350.) Most prominent of Taoist philosophers. (After Okyo, Japanese artist of the eighteenth century.) It was the same with Lau-tsz, Chwang-tsz, and Mencius. Butthere is a great contrast between the teaching of the Tauists andthat of the Confucianists. Quiet contemplation is a very differentthing from the teaching which makes it the duty of a man to serve CHINESE EDUCATION. 697 his country. The Tauists resemble the Quakers, who cannot servethe State in any public office because their principles forbid themto take an oath. The Confucianists resemble the Puritans, who. Mencius. (B. C. 372-289.) Greatest leader of Confucianism. (After Totsugen, Japanese artist of the eighteenth century.) will fight for their doctrines if need be. Age after age there havebeen Confucianist critics of public affairs who would risk death 698 THE OPEN COURT. rather than not speak their mind on the faults of sovereigns. Asin the case of Charles the First, death is in China the punishmentawarded to unfaithful princes. This punishment is inflicted, notby law, but by rebellions which have often ended either in the be-heading of sovereigns as a sacrifice to popular indignation, or insuicide as a preferable mode of resigning life when death was in-evitable. The fact is patent to every one that the Chow dynasty philoso-phers were the founders of national education. This is true of theorthodox school. They made government the occupation of theirlife. Their ideas of the scholars duty were practical, and the goodof the people was their aim. They undertook to govern the Stateand to
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