Everr true Confucianist is an Agnostic. His positive creed is very limited; his negative one boundless, He believes only in the seen; the anseeu ho regards as unknown and unknowable, There may be a god or gods; the soul may be immortal; there may be a heaven and a hell as the croods assert; but we have and can have no knowledge of these things. They are not cognizable by the souses, and thought regarding them is empty speculation, a mere beating of the air, What have Lao. tsz, Buddha, and the whole army of
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