. The awakening of China . are generally worse than bad China, however, a woman is considered out of place 82 THE AWAKENING OF CHINA when she lays her hand on the hehn of state. Hencethe tendency to blacken the names of those famouscotirt beauties. If Mencius may be believed, the tyrants themselveswere not quite so profligate as the story makes says, Dirty water has a tendency to accumulatein the lowest sinks; and he warns the princes of histime not to put themselves in a position in whichfuture ages will continue to heap opprobrium on theirmemory. Of the wise founders of thi
. The awakening of China . are generally worse than bad China, however, a woman is considered out of place 82 THE AWAKENING OF CHINA when she lays her hand on the hehn of state. Hencethe tendency to blacken the names of those famouscotirt beauties. If Mencius may be believed, the tyrants themselveswere not quite so profligate as the story makes says, Dirty water has a tendency to accumulatein the lowest sinks; and he warns the princes of histime not to put themselves in a position in whichfuture ages will continue to heap opprobrium on theirmemory. Of the wise founders of this dynasty it is said thatthey made religion the basis of education, as didthe Romans, who prided themselves on devotion totheir gods. In both cases natural religion degen-erated into gross superstition. In the number of theirgods the Chinese have exceeded the Romans; and theyrefer the worship of many of them to the Shang dynasty. The following dynasty, that of Chou (35 sovereigns,1122-249 2- c.,) merits a separate CHAPTER XVI HOUSE OF CHOU Wen-wang, the founder—Rise and Progress of Culture—Communistic Land Tenure—Origin of the termMiddle Kingdom—Duke Chou and Chengwang, The Completer —A Royal Traveller—Liand Yu, two bad kings THE merciful conqueror who at this time rescuedthe people from oppression was Wu-wang, themartial king. He fovmd, it is said, the people hang-ing with their heads downward and set them on theirfeet. On the eve of the decisive battle he har-angued his troops, appealing to the Deity as thearbiter, and expressing confidence in the result. Thetjnrant, he said, has ten m3Tiads of soldiers, and Ihave but one myriad. His soldiers, however, haveten myriads of hearts, while my army has but oneheart. When the battle had been f ovight and won he turnedhis war-horses out to pasture and ordained that theyshoidd be forever free from yoke and saddle. Couldhe have been less himaane in the treatment of his newsubjects? The credit of his victory he gav
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