| Show CONFUCIUS A AND jn co confucianism U iii in the province of or state of shantung and county of yinchou khoung tsen lsen was born B 0 hla hia decilles deci deel ples pies called ii A ang eang kang aug fust teacher kung and the jesuit missionaries latini zed the title he was born of the traditional poor but honest pan ran parents par brits 11 he early became famous for wisdom and was drawn into politics finding however the air of bobit uncongenial to hib his tastes he gave himself seif self to travel and instruct ion in the hope of reforming current evils thoroughly honest and free from superstition he claimed no divine afflatus and contented himself with the known introducing no novelties he prescribed no quack nostrum no strums s as a panacea cea for the ills of life his wondrous genius was applied to tha study of the ancients and of institutions political and social his contempt for the vague inferential and hypothetic frae monie a blunder freed him and foolish notion with all hla hia thoroughness his teachings were far from being satisfying to human inquiry what he knew know nothing about he said not nothing liking about questioned touching death that riddle of bf holthe all nil the ages his answer was imperfectly with life r ihnow know of death confucius was waa not a speculative philosopher so her like plato or bacon the founder ofa of a religion like jesus or mahomet a 6 lawgiver law giver like or justinian a are rc former like luther or howard he was like yet unlike these in the whole realm of the actual wag wai was foreign to his thoughts nothing in the whole realm of the imaginary entered at all into his intellectual calculus herein he stands upon an from all I 1 the other great and good men of the race and herein we have an explanation of the fact that chinese character is tobe i 41 i i S rf f studied through a study of confucianism the confucian literature is extensive and its range of inquiry as we wd have seen is wide beyond precedent but we hayer ja ave nive five words the index enoex to the whole system it ls is is 19 summed up in what are called failed tle the five virtues as the commandments of moses and the beatitudes of jesus jebus epitomize their respective systems these virtues are benevolence righteousness propriety knowledge and faith it will be observed that so far as they go these virtues bear a close resemblance to the beatitudes of christianity there is this noticeable difference howe however v er the doctrine of returning good for e evil vil confucius did not indorse upon one ond occasion he hefeli befell fell feil in hi with wab laats the founder of the tanist sect beet and laid the dialogue between them Is preserve preserved dAh in a V volume that tha has hai recently been rendered into 1 glish confucius wh at thi thine thins 1 n k you of tho the doctrine of the tha anc ane ancients lents 9 thou snail love thine enemy 11 to this the tile sage r replied plied piled if I 1 love iove ove mine enemy have I 1 left for my friend be just to all ail this is noticeable as one of the very few instances in which confucius deviated from the ethics of the chin chinese erd erg fathers western monthly mo aror ete ite I 1 t I 1 STAG STAGNANT ViNT WATER 1 1 1 I Sta stagnant gnad guad or foul water is injurious s 1 lo 10 s al ali all I 1 animals ib it causes blood pol poi poisoning sonin comi and thus leads to many febrile complaints pla pia ints it brings on abort abortion ibn in other animals animal sas jas well as in cows cowa two tivo win a ago ao o three valuable mares I 1 belonging in ato to a SOME somewhat what carel careless ess untidy farmer slipped their colts very shortly after christmas these mares had been tolerably well kept and not too hardly worked but had been watered several weeks at af a pool pooi by thet side aide of which a large magiure manure heap had bad been foolishly placed and into which the highly colored colored organic matter found its way borne somme ewes watered at the same pool cast their lambs whilst another lot of ewes ewest kept two fields distant managed in exael exact exactly aly the same way but enjoying a purer supply of water carried carriea their lambs to the full period since better utter care has been taken to prevent the water supply being contaminated by the manure heap neither mares nor ewes haye have suffered from abortion aU all similar cases have doubtless occurred in the experience of our readers n pet vet ed north morth british agricultural |
