Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . o exceptionally vile that they cannotbe hinted at are only too well known. An English oath is a wingedbullet; Chinese abuse is a ball of filth, says the author of ChineseCharacteristics. The notorious books and placards of Hunan arean indication of the interior furnishing of the Chinese imagination. In Siam adultery is lightly condemned, and unclean vices are prac-tised. In Thibet the moral status is low. Marriage is often a convenientfiction, and may be adjusted as a temporary bargain wherever a manmay happen t
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . o exceptionally vile that they cannotbe hinted at are only too well known. An English oath is a wingedbullet; Chinese abuse is a ball of filth, says the author of ChineseCharacteristics. The notorious books and placards of Hunan arean indication of the interior furnishing of the Chinese imagination. In Siam adultery is lightly condemned, and unclean vices are prac-tised. In Thibet the moral status is low. Marriage is often a convenientfiction, and may be adjusted as a temporary bargain wherever a manmay happen to be. Not only is polygamy common, but polyandry isrecognized and practised among the 1 Griffis, The Mikados Empire, seventh edition, pp. 362, 368. 2 Griffis, Corea, p. 251; Gilmore, Korea, p. 109. 3 Norman, The Peoples and Politics of the Far East, p. 352. 4 Smith, Chinese Characteristics, p. 179; Douglas, Society in China,p. 205. 5 Cf. The Christian (London), March 28, 1895, article entitled Social Moralsin the Orient. 6 Mar6ton, The Great Closed Land, pp. 47, THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 89 India occupies an unenviable prominence as a land where immoraltendencies have flourished and brought forth their fruit with tropicalluxuriance. There is a panoramic variety in thephases of its social vice, the ill-concealed obscenity The moral condition ofof much of its sacred literature, and the immoral India, aspects of some of its religious rites and social demoralization which attends vice is revealed there to anunusual extent—the tell-tale stringency in the seclusion of woman,child marriage, low views of womans place and function in society,a contemptuous estimate of her character and capacity, tainted familylife, unseemly marriage customs, obscenity in talk and song, prosti-tution, concubinage, lax views of adultery, and the contamination ofso-called religious rites and services with uncleanness. The spiritof that now happily obscure
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