London vit Bombay, August 26.
The British colony at Tangier has tioned Mr. Gerald Lowther, th for warships inadequacy of the Franco-Spanish measures fort protection. All Europeans have lof elsewhere. As Lee impossible to In without creating influence Whatever lectual influence of the vention of gunpowder, ivory carving, of porcelain, it has certainly not destroyed superstition.
On the other hand it must be remembered that superstition is the bane of an an= cultured race it' may also be thy treasure of a highly cultured one. The Athenian N refused to raise the siege of Syracuse because there was an eclipse of the moon idas was the product of a cultured: but self-cent A parallel between and Chinese in this respect is no exaggeration. For ages China has lived exclusively upon. herself and her past. The rule of the literati, and the sacredness in which the writings of China's ancient sages are held perpetuate habits of mind and traditions which would evitably be blurred by sensible contact with foreign thought. Thus, in the dust of a soil is laid which is exact nature to promote serve superstition, as a part of ip of antiquity, among both
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