mnipotentcreator. The Chinese religion is therefore nothingbut an extravagant pantheism which recognisesand invokes the gods of thunder, rain, wind, and clouds; protectingspirits of seeds, trees, and flowers; eight immortals ; three stewards andfive emperors of heaven, independent of the ching or… … VASE ORNAMENTED WITHTHE TWO PRINCIPLES ANDTHE EIGHT DIAGRAMS. CHINA. 25 tseu, and of the fabulous legends spread about his birth. The father ofthe philosopher was only a poor countryman, who remained single untilthe age of seventy; he married at last a woman of forty, who conceivedunder the…
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