Fallacies of Race Theories As Applied to National Characteristics;
The book Fallacies of Race Theories As Applied to National Characteristics; was written by author William Dalton Babington Here you can read free online of Fallacies of Race Theories As Applied to National Characteristics; book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Fallacies of Race Theories As Applied to National Characteristics; a good or bad book?
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i. p. 70. 2 P. Lafitte, Civilisation Chinoise. 250 CHINESE SYSTEMS of a golden age of old, when the kings and rulers of men were philosophers. 1 This condition has been partially realised in China for twelve hundred years ; for, since the age of the Tang dynasty, the government of the country has been carried on by men trained in philo- sophy as understood in that ancient empire. China is the only country in which this experiment has been tried so long, and on so vast a scale. It is therefore m...ost interesting to examine what effects the system has produced as to social freedom and material pro- gress. We, outer barbarians, are pretty well acquainted with the names at least of three of the great philoso- phers of China : Lao-tse, about B.C. 600 ; his rival Con- fucius, about B.C. 551 ; and Mencius, born about B.C. 371. These three are the masters whose opinions it has been the work of subsequent sages to explain and extend. They taught a politico-ethical system which was pro- foundly pagan, inasmuch as it concerned itself mainly with moral well-being in this world, and took but scanty notice of a future life ; and they despised physical science, as tending to distract attention from the really important question, ' What ought I do ?
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