Modern Science And Modern Thought
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Sometimes, however, of the two stems of religion one only has flourished, and the other has either never existed, or been overshadowed by the first and relegated to a lower sphere. Thus the great Chinese civilisation, comprising such a large portion of the human race, has apparently developed its religion entirely from the idea of spirits and spirit -worship. The worship of ancestors is its main feature, and its sacred books are, in effect, treatises on ethics and political economy, with rules ...for rites and ceremonies to enforce decent and decorous behaviour, rather than what we should call works of religion. There is no trace of a con- ception of anthropomorphic gods in the genuine national Chinese religion from Confucius downwards ; and even the introduction of Buddhism has done little but add the deified hero, Buddha, to the list of divine ancestors and give more definite shape to various vague super- stitions. In like manner the whole Buddhist world can hardly be said to recognise anything beyond their incarnate hero, except a Nirvana or metaphysical abstraction, rather than a personal deity.
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Sometimes, however, of the two stems of religion one only has flourished, and the other has either never existed, or been overshadowed by the first and relegated to a lower sphere. Thus the great Chinese civilisation, comprising such a large portion of the human race, has apparently developed its religion entirely from the idea of spirits and spirit -worship. The worship of ancestors is its main feature, and its sacred books are, in effect, treatises on ethics and political economy, with rules ...for rites and ceremonies to enforce decent and decorous behaviour, rather than what we should call works of religion. There is no trace of a con- ception of anthropomorphic gods in the genuine national Chinese religion from Confucius downwards ; and even the introduction of Buddhism has done little but add the deified hero, Buddha, to the list of divine ancestors and give more definite shape to various vague super- stitions. In like manner the whole Buddhist world can hardly be said to recognise anything beyond their incarnate hero, except a Nirvana or metaphysical abstraction, rather than a personal deity.
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