. Lion and dragon in northern China. as unreasonable as to suppose that SirWalter Scott (true gentleman, heart, blood and bone,as Tennyson called him) could have acted dishonour-ably or that Sir Philip Sidney, the prince of chivalry,could have told a lie. I cannot hope that these remarks will re-establishConfuciuss reputation as a lover of truth in the mindsof those who wish for proselytising purposes to con-vince the Chinese that their sage was a grievoussinner. Such persons will doubtless in any casecontinue to hold that the Chinese as a people areuntruthful, and that whether or not the untr
. Lion and dragon in northern China. as unreasonable as to suppose that SirWalter Scott (true gentleman, heart, blood and bone,as Tennyson called him) could have acted dishonour-ably or that Sir Philip Sidney, the prince of chivalry,could have told a lie. I cannot hope that these remarks will re-establishConfuciuss reputation as a lover of truth in the mindsof those who wish for proselytising purposes to con-vince the Chinese that their sage was a grievoussinner. Such persons will doubtless in any casecontinue to hold that the Chinese as a people areuntruthful, and that whether or not the untruth-fulness is a legacy left them by Confucius it is a vicewhich only Christianity can extirpate. This questionof Chinese untruthfulness we have already considered,1and a few words are all that is necessary here. Persons who believe that the untruthfulness of theChinese (presuming that it exists) is due to their11 heathenism and that truth is a typically or exclu-sively Christian virtue may have some difficulty in 1 See pp. 108 ~i
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