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ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND'S THREE BOOKS THAT "LINK EAST AND WEST"
Atec Февраль 16 2008 20:05:56
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The Chinese have been an agricultural people for thirty centuries
or more, and this characteristic is embodied in the Temple of
Agriculture, which occupies a park of not less than three hundred
and twenty acres of city property opposite the Temple of Heaven.
It has four great altars, with their adjacent halls, to the
spirits of Heaven, Earth, the Year, and the Ancestral Husbandman,
Shen Nung, to whom the temple is dedicated. It was used as the
camp of the American soldiers in 1900, and was well cared for. At
one time some of the soldiers upset one of the urns, and when it
was reported to the officer in command, the whole company was
called out and the urn properly replaced, after which the men
were lectured on the matter of injuring any property belonging to
the temple.
There are several large plots of ground in this enclosure, one of
which the Emperor ploughs, while another is marked "City
Magistrate," another "Prefect," and on these bits of land the
"five kinds of grain" are sown. One cannot view these imperial
temples without being impressed with the potential greatness of a
people who do things on such a magnificent scale. But one, at the
same time, also feels that these temples, and the great Oriental
religions which inspire and support them have failed in a measure
to accomplish their design, which ought to be to educate and
develop the people. This they can hardly be said to have done,
especially if we consider their condition in their lack of all
phases of scientific development, for as the sciences stand
to-day they are all the product of the Christian peoples
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