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 (1887) (14780807461)

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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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rong andhurtful; yet the silver and the gold are both precious metals. If Locke could speak of the one as the most unshaken rule of morality and foundation of all social virtue, the other might be considered the keystone in the arch of Chinese ethics, and to have enunciated such a rule proves the sage to have been both good and great. For Confucius views about ancestors, see Chapter VI. The Marvellous.—The facts in the next two pagesare taken from the stone-engraved pictorial life of thesage, which adorns the walls of the temple near his grave.They are given just as they are there stated. A vertebra as large as the wheel of a wheel barrow having been found, a messenger from the duke asks Con- io8 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, fucius, Who of the ancients had such a big bone? He answered, When the Emperor Yu assembled thehost of gods at Mount Weikee, Pangfung came last, andYu cut off his head. His bones were as big as the wheel of a barrow. A large red bird brings to the king an inscription on
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Weeping for the Unicorn. bamboo, and places it at the palace door. He inquires ofthe sage the interpretation, who says, that a king of the Han dynasty had a ' precious efficacious prescription, and that he left it on a mountain in a casket, and now the bird brings it to him as a gift from Heaven.Confucius, with one of his disciples, went to the summit Confucius: His Character and Influence. 109 of Mount Taij and the latter asked, ' If that white thingoutside of the Chang Gate at Soochow (600 miles) was abolt of white cloth ? Confucius said, No, it is a white horse. The eye of the sage is god-like, says his biographer. Prophetic.—Confucius on one occasion told his disciplesto take their umbrellas and rain-shoes. There was after-wards a big rain, though the sky was clear when theyset out. They asked how he came to be a weather-cock.He answered, Last night I saw the moon and Taurus in conjunction. A one-footed bird, flying into the court of the palace of Shang, stretched out its wings and hopp