January 13th,—With an unimportant exception, the whole of this day's occupied with a Memorial from P'an 'T'suyin and the other dissentients from the general view held by the Council of State nippon the subject of the admission of the tablets of the Scholars Huang Taung-hai and Ku You-wu into the Confucian Temple.
The Momorialists commence by a refer. ence to the oldest precedents for sacrificing to toxchors in urder tu show respect to thy after their death, from whenes the worship of Confucius arose. Chény Kang-ch'iug made Chou Kung rank as the teacher wore Was wor-
Book of History. was how sacrifices to teachers began, in A.D. 648, at the encrifices to Confucius, 22 additional tablets were ordered to be worshipped, the tablets being dedicated to the historian 'I'so Chtin-ning and others. Chou Kang was castral suze of the literati par excellent From that time it was thought right that the mont eminent teachers of the Confucian doctrines should be worshipped with the sage. In the Sung dynasty this honour waa accorded to many noted scholars of that age, Additions were made in the Yuan avd Ming dynasties, principle that we ought to honour hoe who have our teach The Memorislists desire to seo recognised the merits of those who lave shed lustre on the Confuci School of the present dynasty, cordance with the spirit of the Decree of 1829, jealously to limit the honour of a The first gro g the honour for Huang si and Kn Yen-wu is they founded the school of classical ut cly est place, and it began with these two men. Witness the criticism on the lout text of the Book of Hiaory, the discovery of the eld pronunciation of the Classical Booke, and the great improve the criticism of the geography a uy of the same old works.
28 of the separate sehyo's on U subjects muy all be traced to these t men, who left a good method of research to the echulars who have succeeded thei Among meu everywhere they have won glorious reputation, and the readers of their books all look up to them with respect as thole teachers.
A remarkable thing occurred half tury ago, The officials of the Metro-is erected " sacrificing chapel to Ku Yen-wu in the capital, Ever since that time the literati of Chihli have taken care Of this chapel and kept up Uhere the spring and autunin sacrifices, Such a proceeding had never been known before, and why: did so many persons unite ts honour this great schuler? In no provines is there a lack of good officers deservedly famous, and there is safety in following the lead of the popular mind in s case like thie, the fact being that men spontaneously honour those who are three recognined guides, 'The second yround for conferring the honour is the petual perfurmauers of the two men. Huang 'Taung-hei_ wrote " work on the development of the Confucian clu i the lauds of various auth of dynasty, to which he added other work of the' same kind for the Sun and Yuan dyuastivs, Ho marked out the schools of thought in those times, eondemning all that was wrong with exemplary severity and fairness, As to Ku Yeu-wa, though he did not nominally found " school of moral philes phy, he did really exhibit an example of is virtuous life. He blamed the euro rent moral philosophy as being esoteric Buddhism in disguise, and he states that it was a fashion to build a Confucian theory upon the books of Buddhist ascetics, 80 that the Liiw Yi and the classics were passed over, and citations were mae from works by Buddhist monks in-steal, His teaching was pure, and he sought after truth without boasting or lity. In his Jik Chih Lu (Bj 908%) he showed how to vanquish the opposition of clever men, and supplied a book of pure ilosuphy which is model for the learner, Unfortunarely it did not effect all the good it_was adapted fur. At the end of the Ming dynasty many authors wrote on moral subjects under Buddhist influence to an extent bordering on extravagance. Book: were despised, the rules of "Leachers w neglected, and the dynasty itself lost ite balance and fell into min, Huang and Ku vigorously attacked this Confucianism in Buddhist disguise, and it was completely overthrown. "As Buddhism deed, a system of simple truth grew up i and it was by these two the new mode of thought was started on its successful career.
Forth regard to economical politi these meu did good service at the er when the dyuaety was clanging, For example: the prefecture of Ch'éuz-ting, with 5 Chou and 27 Hsien cities, yielded to the Government 100,000 piculs of grain, while Ssu Chen, with one Chen and seven piculs. It inciple with wise rulers to equalise taxation, The emperors diminished the revenue required from Ssu-chou, Sung-chiang and shang, and increased that required from the Chilli cities, Many other similar improvements were made, 80 that the Government lays burdens more equally now on the shoulders of the popula tion than. the Ming dynasty. The men have remained among. economists as valuable for their suggestions during two centuries until the pr time, and the Memorialiate are of opinion that if their autho in which the xdii ducted, and the share they have had in originating modes now in-use, they are highly deserving of being worshipped at the spring and autumn sxcrific for the honour claimed for thes eminent scholars is found in the way in which they are mentioned in the its of their lives contained in the biographical portion of the tory wow preparing in the sect called the Ju Lin, or eminent scholar."
Great and multifarious knowledge attributed to Huang Ts and of Ku Yen-wu it is aid th dity of lwaruing he is wt the head of the echolara of the Mancha dynasty, At the eud of the biography it is said of him that he had caused to be created at Hua-yin an ancestral temple to Chu Fu-tzit, By this act he seems to have ested, though in a covert manner, that he had united himself to the Tzu Yang (3% LIB) echod, of which Chu Hsi himself Was tue chief representative, the words of conjure in the aupploment to the Chien Lung Catalogue ought not to be made a ground for refusing to these two distinguished men the honour of the sacrifices, The statements there wade are not intended to be complete. wi Shu Ching and Shih C! rejected be. catine some pat tem are mutilated imperfect. Then, tov, if one advert to thow scholars of the present dynasty who have been admitted to the sacriliows, tint is to it-yi, Lu Lung ehi'i, Sun Ch'-feng, and Chang Pei-hsing, the books they wrote have nlay been or and pronounced not free from fault in same Imperial Supplement, or have been thout any critical notice ut all, winting' eud of a fault in the work of avy scholar in the Imperial Supplement i for denying such author a place then these four men would, Tang Pin, "man of tie hi; rank among those admitted to the auer in the ponent dynasty, and inflxibly just, compared Huang I gemout of the ug to the to the Of Ku hen our doctrines had. fallen into deerly it was this man that gave them new development and fresh illnsti tion"
There are no other men of whom no one else. When Tang Pi Bureau of History on one occasion, ing " book of Huang Tsung-hsi he said that the chapters on the moral philosophy school in the history of the Sung were the work of the somewhat degenerate literati of the Yuan dynasty. He then showed them to many other person and threw them aside as not to the pose. He clearly indicated by this i that his view was that of Huang 4 Thy ne Emperors and wise mi ters unite in speaking of these men in such manner as to leave no doubt on the course that should be pursued, and the memorialists feel it to be their duty to ask,
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