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The Directors had to contend with a peculiar co-mixture of passions, licentious habits, and hereditary vice; to eradicate these, and to rescue the natives from their natural state, alluring and progressive measures were necessary, founded upon an accurate investigation of their characters and policy, and not by the fulminations of intemperate zealots, and theoretical speculators.
The toleration, fraternity, or co-mixture of the three religions ancestor-worship or Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, and Taoism explains the compound nature of the triune head of the Chinese pantheon. This general or super-triad is, of course, composed of Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Buddha. Worship of the Living
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