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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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s and the Altar.—It is said that theconcluding act of his life was the solemn dedication ofhis literary labours to Heaven. He assembled all hisdisciples, and led them out of the town to one of thehills, where sacrifices had usually been offered up formany years. Here he erected an altar, upon which heplaced the books; and then, turning his face to thenorth, adored Heaven, and returned thanks upon hisknees in a humble manner, for having had life andstrength granted him to accomplish this laborious under-taking ; he implored Heaven to grant that the benefitto his countrymen might not be small. He had pre- Confucius: His Character and Influence. 113 pared himself for this ceremony by privacy, fasting, andprayer. The stone engraving represents the sage inthe attitude of supplication, while a beam of lightdescends from the sky. Death.—Confucius died lamenting that the edificehe had laboured so long to erect was crumbling to ruin.His biographer tells us that early one morning he got up,
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The Books and the Altar. and, with his hands behind his back, dragging his staff,he moved about the door, saying— The great mountain must crumble ;The strong beam must break ;And the wise man wither away like a plant. He called his disciples, and, referring to ancestral wor-ship, said: According to ancient statues the corpse wasdressed, treating the dead as if he were still the host.Under the Yin dynasty the ceremony was performed 8 114 The Dragon, hnage, ^nd Demon, between the two pillars of the main hall, as if the deadwere both host and guest. I am a man of Yin, and lastnight I dreamt that I was sitting with offerings beforeme between the two pillars. No intelligent monarcharises ; there is not one in the empire that will makeme his master. My time has come to die. In sevendays he expired. Such is the account of the last hours of the greatphilosopher of China. His end was melancholy. Therulers had not received his teachings. No wife or childwas near. Nor were the expectations of

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