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or modern literature. In con-formity with the Confucian principle of serv-ing the dead as if they were present in theflesh, the prayer, conveying information ofthe important events in the history of a dy-nasty, is always communicated to the spirittablet of the founder. The prayer was asfollows:— ^… … > <: o m OHm u < X H H< O I—t H-1 CO O TRIBUTE TO THE MINGS 129 that Your Majesty, our founder, arose inyour wrath from obscurity, and destroyedthose monsters of iniquity, so that the ancientglory was won again. In twelve years youconsolidated the Imperial sway, and the do-minions of…
Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925
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