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Updated: May 27, 2025
Lao-tze, quoted in Huc's China, vol. ii., p. 177. To think of what Immanuel Kant has been to the many men and women of this century, who, having unlearnt the old traditions, had not yet found a new inspiration the souls that were athirst for the waters of life which the ancient wells could no longer supply is to be reminded of the pious and generous tribute which the Jewish exiles, after their sad return from the Babylonian captivity, paid to Nehemiah and his brethren, the reorganisers of their race.
The Mohammedan revolts in Yunan and Kashgar, repressed with great ferocity by the Chinese, have in late years temporarily diminished the Mohammedan census; but there seems good reason to believe that they are making steady progress in the Empire. Compare M. Huc's account of their origin. Compare Dr. Badger's History of Oman and Sale's Koran. Lady Anne Blunt's Pilgrimage to Nejd.
But as the Mongol lived in Marco Polo's time, and Huc's, so he does still, and so he will continue to live until Chinese colonization or Russian rule forces him to give up his nomadic ways and settle down and cultivate the soil. Around the yurt gathered women and children, dogs and calves. They were friendly, almost too much so, and the women interested me as much as I did them.
In Huc's work on China I find the following passage, relating to the effects of the frequent official changes in China, from which many hints may be gathered:
I have been spending three weeks with my old friend the French missionary, going daily into the jungle, and fasting on Fridays on omelet and vegetables, a most wholesome custom which I think the Protestants were wrong to leave off. I have been reading Huc's travels in China in French, and talking with a French missionary just arrived from Tonquin.
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