. William H. Seward's travels around the world. llilii. IMAGE OF CONFUCIUS. riously committed to memory. A long, covered corridor connectsthis hall with the temple last described. This corridor has a rowof massive granite columns. We could not stop to count square monoliths are completely covered with the writings ofConfucius, the text being the prescribed standard for all republica-tions within the empire. The grounds contain twelve thousandapartments for professors and scholars. The entire institutionbears, in government language, the name of academy. We 164 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. llilii. IMAGE OF CONFUCIUS. riously committed to memory. A long, covered corridor connectsthis hall with the temple last described. This corridor has a rowof massive granite columns. We could not stop to count square monoliths are completely covered with the writings ofConfucius, the text being the prescribed standard for all republica-tions within the empire. The grounds contain twelve thousandapartments for professors and scholars. The entire institutionbears, in government language, the name of academy. We 164 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. were sorry to find all parts of the academy covered with dust andsand, and exhibiting evidence of much neglect, though not dilapi-dated like the temples. Open any Chinese book, ask any Chinese statesman or scholar,and you will learn that Confucius is worshipped. Push the inquiryfurther, and you will learn that he is worshipped not as a deity,but as a person of divine perfection. The absence of the custom-ary symbols of worship in the Temple of
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