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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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kings honour thee. Thy statutes andlaws have come gloriously down. Thou art the patternin this Imperial school. Reverently have the sacrificialvessels been set out. Full of awe we sound our diumsund bells. The spirit is supposed to be present, and theEmperor offers the prayer: I, the Emperor, offer asacrifice to the philosopher Confucius, the ancient teacher,the perfect sage, and say, 0 Teacher, in virtue equal toHeaven and earth, whose doctrines embrace the past timeand the present.... in reverent observance of the oldstatutes, with victims, silks, spirits, and fruits, I carefully 124 The Dragon, Image, and Demon. offer sacrifice to thee. Mayst thou enjoy the sacrifice.Could the homage of a nation be more complete ? The School.—When a boy enters school he prostrateshimself before the tablet of Confucius. On the 1st and15th of every month little boys are seen going along thestreets with a roll of books in one hand, and candles andincense in the other. Little boy, where are you going
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School-boy worshipping Confucius. to ? I am going to school. What are you goingto do with the candles and incense ? Worship Con-fucius, the Holy Man. And so in every schoolroom byevery one, who, as they say, reads books, the sage isadored precisely as they do the temple images. This is The Confucian Sacrifices, 125 a fearful aspect of Confucianism, that from earliestchildhood boys are taught that success in letters dependson serving, worshipping, and glorifying Confucius. His Rank in the Pantheon.—It has been said, ^ Ifthe Chinese pay divine honours to any being in heaven,or on earth, or under the earth, it is to Confucius. Tohim they offer prayers and sacrifices, and him they wor-ship and adore. The chief god of the Indian religion is Buddha; ofChinese Taoism, the Pearly Emperor; of the Church ofthe learned, Confucius. Comparing the influence of thethree, though the people consider the first two as havingmore power in the unseen world, yet the head of theliterary Church, in the res

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