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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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t knows me. Again, Iam a man who belongs equally to the north and thesouth, the east and the west. He had a presentimentof the future of his school. He would travel, and hisway might be directed to some wise ruler, whom hiscounsels would conduct to a beneficent sway that wouldbreak forth on every side till it transformed the empire. Often in passing from place to place his life was ingreat danger, and once, when an attack was made uponhis company, he sat quietly teaching his chosen pupilsin a forest while armed banditti stood guard around theundaunted sage, who said, After the death of King Wan,was not the cause of truth lodged in me ? If Heaven ip2 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, had wished to let this cause of truth perish, then I, afuture mortal, should not have such a relation to it.At one time a malicious chieftain sent a band to assassi-nate the philosopher. He observed to his disciples: Heaven has produced the virtue that is in me ; whatcan Hwantuy do to me ? He claimed no Divine
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The Sage and the Banditti. commission or Messianic destiny, but simply that hewas a teacher sent to help mankind. A Man of the Past.—The sage constantly referredto the golden age of the past; antiquity was his themein school, antiquity his example in court, antiquity thelamp to guide the nation, antiquity the goal to whichChina was to be carried in the backward flight of time,antiquity the perfect type of society and manhood, Confucius: His Character and Influence, 103 His watchword was not Advance ! but Return ! for hecame not to fulfil but to restore. The book of Con-fucius is a Bible with a paradise lost, but no apocalypticvision of a paradise to be regained. He stated, I amnot one who was born in the possession of knowledge; Iam one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seekingit there. Confucius pretended to no originality in histeachings. I am an editor, and not an author. He

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