Text Appearing Before Image: how dynasty there was a re-markable stirring of the native mind, first in the eleventh centurybefore Christ and then in the sixth century. Chowkung and Con-fucius led the van. Such was their influence that their positionhas been ever since undisputed. No one probably but Professor Legge ever said Confucius wasnot a great man, and Professor Legge in his second edition of theFour Books recanted. In the first edition of the Four Books we read at page 113 ofthe Prolegomena: After long study of his character and opinions I am unable to regard him asa great man. In the Oxford edition of 1893, thirty two years later, the wordsare : I hope I have not done him injustice ; the more I have studied his characterand opinions the more highly I have come to regard him. He was a very great-man. From The Shanghai Mercury of Wednesday, January 17, 1900. CHINESE EDUCATION. 695 His rationality, his firm adherence to a moral standard in pol-itics and philosophy, his sympathetic maintenance of the teaching Text Appearing After Image: Chow-kung.(Died B. C. 1105.) The great statesman of the Chow dynasty. Idealised by—-^Confucius. (After Okyo, Japanese artist of the eighteenth century.) of the great men of the past, his success in giving to his country-men a set of text-books which they have studied ever since and 696 THE OPEN COURT. are still studying, show that he was a great man. Philosophy isincomplete without history, and the proper study of mankind isman. This Confucius knew, and he made it a principle. Thestudy of physical nature he left to others.
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