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Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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- of them are verypoor. There is no hereditary nobility; titles of rank are official only.It must be recorded, however, that notwithstandiug the prevalence of THE CHINESE. 361 examinations, corruption exists throngliont Chinese official ranks almostto the same extent as in Turkey. The divinity that doth hedge a king has nowhere been more
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CHINESK LADY : SHANGHAI. evident than in China, where the emperor has ranked as a divinityand has been accustomed to receive honours elsewhere paid to the gods. Even now, the amount of reverential kotow- ^^^°*°^- 3^2 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. ing, or prostration, kneeling, etc., wliick subjects liave to undergo ingaining an audience of liis JNIajesty, is extreme ; but the English andthe Russian envoys have never bent their bodies to such signs of homage,and gradually they have ceased to be exacted of foreign ambassadorsgenerally. Up to recent times it has been recognised as inconceivable, and ofcourse innDroper, that any prince of China, much less the sovereign, should travel extensively through the vast country, or quit the sacredprinces do not dominions to enlarge his experience in foreign travel. Ex- tprnal things were insignificant or barbarian, and could affordno true benefit to a Celestial. But in 188G the almost incredible eventhappened ; and the father of the Chinese Emperor,

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Civilization
  • booksubject:Culture
  • bookpublisher:London_Ward__Lock
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