The book The Lore of Cathay; Or, the Intellect of China was written by author W a P William Alexander Parsons Martin Here you can read free online of The Lore of Cathay; Or, the Intellect of China book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Lore of Cathay; Or, the Intellect of China a good or bad book?
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The red card that in- vites you to an entertainment solicits " instruction. " When a friend meets you he apologizes for having so long absented himself from your " instructions ; " and in familiar conversation, simple statements and opinions are often received as " precious instruction " by those who do not by any means accept them. It is more to the point to add that one of the classical books denounces it as the greatest of parental faults to bring up a child without instruction. This relates... to the moral rather than to the intellectual side of education. The Chinese government does, nevertheless, encourage purely intel- lectual culture; and it does so in a most decided and effectual manner viz. , by testing attainments and re- warding exertion. In the magnificence of the scale on which it does this, it is unapproached by any other nation of the earth. Lord Mahon, in his History of England, speaking of the patronage extended to learning in the period preced- ing Walpole, observes that " though the sovereign was never an Augustus, the minister was always a Maecenas.
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