The book The Temple And the Sage was written by author V C Virgil Chittenden Hart Here you can read free online of The Temple And the Sage book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Temple And the Sage a good or bad book?
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Sim- plicity was his watchword. " The men of ancient times in matters of etiquette and music were plain, while at the present day in music and etiquette they are fine gentlemen ; I follow the ancients in such things. " The admiring sons of the Sage have followed his instructions, and have kept to the good old orthodox ways. Instruments of the same pattern as were thrummed in China when the early shepherds of Chaldea played to their flocks, are found in Confucian temples The same strains which d...elighted the philosopher when on earth, are now used to enchant 72 CONFUCIANISltf. his spirit from above. While he indulges mortals for a brief moment with his presence at his feast, strains of music fill his temple, then his soul is dis- missed to the unknowable Heaven, wafted by music, Heaven's great gift to man. At Nanking we have a most beautiful and valuable collection of instruments. The marshal's baton is of satin figured with costly velvet. There are fifteen kinds of instruments, three bells, one very large, two drums, the magnificent Ku crowned with a phosnix.
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