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Title: 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ts, tear downplacards, empty waste-paper baskets, gather up everyscrap of written paper, take it to their employers, who paysixty cents per hundredweight, carry it to the Pity Cha-racter furnace and burn it. The ashes are sent to the portand carried out to sea, to be thrown overboard in a storm,so as to cause the waves to be stilled. These furnacesor altars are often connected with temples, and large sumsof money are thus expended. It is considered an offeringto letters, to Confucius, and to the god of literature.Mencius.—In considering the character of this great 136 The Dragon, Imagey and Demon. philosopher, the question arises, How can a man become agod in China ? I answer. By the erection of a temple andthe offering of sacrifices. The only temple Mencius hasis near his grave in the province of Shantung, where sheepand pigs, by Imperial order, are placed on the altar, buthe is not deified in the estimation of the people. Hisdescendants of the seventieth and seventy-second genera-
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Mencius. tions are now living. He was born B.C. 371, and died atthe advanced age of eighty-four, a contemporary of Plato,Aristotle, Zeno, Epicurus, and Demosthenes. The mother of Mencius is perhaps the most cele-brated woman in Chinese annals. As a widow, she choseher residence near a school, and said, ^ This is the properplace for my son. Finding that he was neglecting his Confucian Gods, 137 lessons she took a knife and cut through the web she wasweaving, and when he, astonished, asked the reason, shetold him that her cutting through the web was like hisneglecting his lessons. The maternal admonition laid thefoundation of his future greatness. In after years, wishingto leave the kingdom of Tse because his doctrines werenot practised, he said to his mother, I wish to leave myposition and salary, but I think of your old age, and amanxious. She replied, You are a man in your fullmaturity, and I am old. Do you act as your convictionof righteousness tells you you ought to do ? Why should

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