. Review of reviews and world's work. me political design, inorder that the parent society may not be com-promised. So these so-called Boxers arose outof the determination to resist railway Kiaotze, as they should be called, emanatefrom the great Northern secret society, which iscalled Thiendianhien, known generally inEurope as the Society of the True Ancestor ;this ancestor being Heaven, from which we allcome, and in the bosom of which we shall allone day be restored. This society has existedfor 2,500 years, during which it has considerablychanged its objects. It was at first
. Review of reviews and world's work. me political design, inorder that the parent society may not be com-promised. So these so-called Boxers arose outof the determination to resist railway Kiaotze, as they should be called, emanatefrom the great Northern secret society, which iscalled Thiendianhien, known generally inEurope as the Society of the True Ancestor ;this ancestor being Heaven, from which we allcome, and in the bosom of which we shall allone day be restored. This society has existedfor 2,500 years, during which it has considerablychanged its objects. It was at first a mysticalorganization, and then it developed into a kindof Chinese Freemasonry designed to preservethe solidarity of the yellow race ; and the China-man, even if he is not already a member of it,joins it the moment he decides to expatriate him-self to the United States, or Singapore, or Cey-lon, or Australia, or auy other country of theforeign devil. His reason for doing so is thatthe society secures, in the event of his death, the. CUINESE READING BOXEK PLACARDS IN THE STREETS. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH, 339 return of his corpse to his native country—anessential object with them ; for otherwise itwould not be saved and restored to Heaven, theTrue Ancestor, unless he were buried in Chinesesoil. So that thus the very process of emigra-tion, which, might seem the weakness, makes forthe strength of this remarkable society, whichlias developed from being a simple friendlysociety of Chinese into a definite alliance againstwhite men. The Thiendianhien counts ad-herents all over China, but particularly in theNorth. ANOTHER IN THE SOUTH. The other secret society, which is better or-ganized and infinitely more dangerous, is prac-tically all-powerful in the South ; and M. dePouvourville sees in it the great danger toFrench domination in Indo-China. It may becalled the white Nenufar, and, like the North-ern society, it began in mysticism and developedinto political tendencies. Now
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