CHAPTER II.
Confucius and the Chinese, or the Prose of Asia.
Sec.1.Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization.
Sec.2.Chinese Government based on Education.

Civil-Service Examinations.
Sec.3.Life and Character of Confucius.
Sec.4.Philosophy and subsequent Development of Confucianism.
Sec.5.

Lao-tse and Tao-ism.
Sec.6.Religious Character of the "Kings." Sec.7.Confucius and Christianity.

Character of the Chinese.
Sec.8.The Tae-ping Insurrection.NOTE.The Nestorian Inscription in China of the Eighth Century.
Sec.1.Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization.
In qualifying the Chinese mind as prosaic, and in calling the writings of Confucius and his successors _prose_, we intend no disrespect to either.
Prose is as good as poetry.

But we mean to indicate the point of view from which the study of the Chinese teachers should be approached.