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Ten Great Religions

CHAPTER II
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Hwuy, having one understands ten." One of the select ten disciples, Tszee-loo, was rash and impetuous like the Apostle Peter.

Another, Tszee-Kung, was loving and tender like the Apostle John; he built a house near the grave of Confucius, wherein to mourn for him after his death.
The last years of the life of Confucius were devoted to editing the Sacred Books, or Kings.

As we now have them they come from him.

Authentic records of Chinese history extend back to 2357 B.C., while the Chinese philosophy originated with Fuh-he, who lived about 3327 B.C.He it was who substituted writing for the knotted strings which before formed the only means of record.

He was also the author of the Eight Diagrams,--each consisting of three lines, half of which are whole and half broken in two,--which by their various combinations are supposed to represent the active and passive principles of the universe in all their essential forms.


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