Shanghai, 27th Nov, Before H, S, Winxrssox, Esq. A. Gnoxnzn and others v, Mra, M. Gnazx, Christianity as th Steolf to be diffe taught by the pricste of Buddhism, Taoiem and innumerable other sects.
Next the Emperor essays to bring home to the people the use and object of the laws. That these are but the signposts by which the true path of life is pointed out, not arbitrary enactments proceeding from the will and for the advantage of the rulers 'VILL.—Explain the laws, that the ignorant and careless may be preserved from error.
Whey are but the utterance of common and it is but the stupid and foolish who will fail to respect them when once brought before them.
Having thus dealt with the law, the subject of the complex system of ceremonial obsorvances His Majeaty found enforced throughout their Sacred Books naturally required a note, and having come to the conclusion that although possibly there was much that was obsolete and something that was vicious therein, atill that some rules of society were neces-ary, and that these rites which had been handed down from antiquity were thoroughly believed in and tenaciously held by his new copie, the Emperor expresses himself as follow:
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