The world: historical and actual . hy, social science and political gov-ernment. From these graduates the army ofteachers, scribes, lawyers, and physicians is continu-ally recruited; but before the citizen can hojie tohold any public office above that of constable, hemust enter the triennial examinations, held at eachof the provincial capitals, and win the second liter-ary title—that of Advanced Man. Preparationfor this contest carries him farther and farther intothe depths of the Confucian philosophy. It involvesgreat labor, embracing the mastery of the most abstruse doctrines of Confucian me
The world: historical and actual . hy, social science and political gov-ernment. From these graduates the army ofteachers, scribes, lawyers, and physicians is continu-ally recruited; but before the citizen can hojie tohold any public office above that of constable, hemust enter the triennial examinations, held at eachof the provincial capitals, and win the second liter-ary title—that of Advanced Man. Preparationfor this contest carries him farther and farther intothe depths of the Confucian philosophy. It involvesgreat labor, embracing the mastery of the most abstruse doctrines of Confucian metaphysics, agood knowledge of the theory and code of the Chi-nese government, and great readiness in the use ofthe language. The natural sciences, which havegradually wrought their way into the higher schoolsof Europe and America, and which have done somuch to develop these countries within the past onehundred years, are still (with the exception of astron-omy) excluded from the regular curriculum of Chi-nese study, although be-. CHINESE rMAOE OF BUDDHA. tion hi some of the specialschools established undergovernment auspice- atPeking, and the Teatcenters of foreign , Fuchow. (Ian-ton, Tien-tsin. and otherpoints. While comparativelyfew from the masses ofthe Chinese people attainto even the first literanrank, it may be truthful-ly said that the multi-tudes are able to read andwrite in a rudimentaryway. if nothing are very few of thecommon people—of themales—who cannot readthe almanac, keep awritten memorandum ofaccounts, and enjoy thepopular romance, writ-ten lor this class of readers in the limited vocabu-lary of common speech and found scattered throughthe huts of the laboring classes and the boats of theriver j>eople. The folk-lore of China is voluminous,and their romances of love and war are almost in-numerable. A large part of this stuff is the veriesttrash, but in the worthless mass there is a little goodwheat which manifests itself in v
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