. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . nity,however, there are differences of opinion. He cannot be said to have at first adopted the role of general religiouspropagandism. By slow processes, a little band of behevers drew together,and their union was cemented by community of suffering, for iconoclasticzeal betrayed them into acts that drew down upon them the vengeance ofthe law. Fortuitous events precipitated the crisis. The religious clan estab-lished by Hung
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . nity,however, there are differences of opinion. He cannot be said to have at first adopted the role of general religiouspropagandism. By slow processes, a little band of behevers drew together,and their union was cemented by community of suffering, for iconoclasticzeal betrayed them into acts that drew down upon them the vengeance ofthe law. Fortuitous events precipitated the crisis. The religious clan estab-lished by Hung and his co-workers served as a rallying-point for manyhakkas [quasi-gipsies] who had been driven from their temporary settle-ments, and thus the Shang-ti worshippers—for so they called themselves—ultimately became objects of hostility to the landowners of the province,to the followers of Buildliism and Taoism, and to the civil authorities. Drivenby these circumstances into open rebeUion, they commenced a movementwhich ultimately swept throughout nearly the whole empire, costing the Uvesof millions of people, pushing the Manchu dynasty to the verge of ruin, keep-. CHrNESE BURYING-PLACE ing the realm in a ferment for fourteen years, and ultimately betrayingEngland and France into a course which, if it be finally declared erroneous,can never be too much regretted. THE PROGRESS OF T.\IPING POWER; THE TRIADS Within three years from the time of raising their standard the Taipingforces obtained possession of Nanking, the southern capital of China, thecity under whose walls the first foreign treaty had been signed eleven yearspreviously. Eleven years had now elapsed since the conclusion of the Nan-king treaty. British trade with Chhia was beginning to assume considerabledimensions. Hong-Kong promised to become a valuable possession, andShanghai showed signs of growing into a prosperous settlement. The Tai-pings could no longer be ignored, especially as the commanding position they
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