controversories

Updated: June 8, 2025

The Chinaman, who looked more like a Tartar, could make himself quite clear. If it had not been that he used the wrong words and had an itch for unusual ones, he would have given the impression of being a most intelligent man. He said he was anti-clerical, declared himself a pantheist, and spoke of the "controversories" he maintained with different persons.

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