The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese . of it, and it has, as it were, saturated thelanguage and literature of the whole country. A Chinesecommentator says : The evolution and transformation ofheaven and earth, the maturity and decay of the vitalpowers of living men, the blooming and withering ofplants and trees, with the life and death of all classesof things, is nothing but the action of the divine wonder that thinking minds, without a knowledge
The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese . of it, and it has, as it were, saturated thelanguage and literature of the whole country. A Chinesecommentator says : The evolution and transformation ofheaven and earth, the maturity and decay of the vitalpowers of living men, the blooming and withering ofplants and trees, with the life and death of all classesof things, is nothing but the action of the divine wonder that thinking minds, without a knowledge ofthe Creator, should deify nature, and worship the soul ofnature, instead of looking from nature to nntnres God. The Adoration of Nature. 67 Heaven and Earth.—The ethical literature of thislaud is vast, books abound exhorting men to be opening sentence of each volume is a solemn charge to worship heaven and earth. At the Old Years feast,during the New Years holidays, and on the wedding day,heaven and earth are worshipped. During the 1st JMoon,the 9th day is heavens birthday, and the 10th day is earthsbirthday, when incense is burned towards heaven in the. Worship of Heaven and Earth at New Year. open courts of the houses. The two great thoughtsengraved on the Chinese mind are the duties of honouringthe father and mother who care for us in childhood, andof worshipping heaven and earth, the great father andmother of the universe ; and so ineradicable are these firsttruths, that when a man listens to a preacher whom heaccredits as a teacher of morality, though the assertionis repeatedly made that we must not worship heavenand earth, yet the hearer walks out of the chapel saying, 68 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, Oh yes! worship heaven and earth ; Heaven andearth are of most importance. The only possible wayis by some startling illustration, as by a shock from anelectric battery, to show the terrible sin of adoringheaven and earth, for around this pivot the whole of
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