China: Its History, Arts And Literature 3
China: Its History, Arts And Literature 3
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The firmament is a mysterious text-book in which the laws of nature, the fate and fortunes of every individual, are written in mystic characters, intel- ligible only to the initiated. The prime agencies of heaven's influence are the sun, the moon, the twelve signs of the zodiac, the " twenty-eight constellations,'* the " five planets," the " seven stars of the Great Bear, '* and " nine stars of the Northern Bushel ; *' while the secondary agencies are the five elements, — wood, fire, earth, met...al, and water, — not as merely material substances, but rather, as spiritual essences, constituting the generative causes of all physical objects, and hav- ing also productive and destructive relations to each other. The five planets — only five were known to the Chinese — exercise their influence through these essences, which may be traced in the five constituents of the human frame, in the five viscera, the five colours, the five fortunes, and the five social relations. The numerical concep- tion informing the whole system is illustrated by this example, and the sum of the matter may be stated to be that the Chinese read a mathematical 107 Digitized by Google CHINA scheme in the distribution and movements of the celestial bodies, as well as in the constantly recur- ring terrestrial phenomena of changing seasons, growth and decay, life and death.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The firmament is a mysterious text-book in which the laws of nature, the fate and fortunes of every individual, are written in mystic characters, intel- ligible only to the initiated. The prime agencies of heaven's influence are the sun, the moon, the twelve signs of the zodiac, the " twenty-eight constellations,'* the " five planets," the " seven stars of the Great Bear, '* and " nine stars of the Northern Bushel ; *' while the secondary agencies are the five elements, — wood, fire, earth, met...al, and water, — not as merely material substances, but rather, as spiritual essences, constituting the generative causes of all physical objects, and hav- ing also productive and destructive relations to each other. The five planets — only five were known to the Chinese — exercise their influence through these essences, which may be traced in the five constituents of the human frame, in the five viscera, the five colours, the five fortunes, and the five social relations. The numerical concep- tion informing the whole system is illustrated by this example, and the sum of the matter may be stated to be that the Chinese read a mathematical 107 Digitized by Google CHINA scheme in the distribution and movements of the celestial bodies, as well as in the constantly recur- ring terrestrial phenomena of changing seasons, growth and decay, life and death.
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