I have been a long way, but now I ahe question which you asked me awhile ago. You asked me, you will remember, how without a belief in God which religion teaches_how ake men, make the mass of mankind, follow and obey the moral rule which fucius teaches in his State religion_the absolute duty of loyalty to the Emperor? I have shown you that it is not the belief in God taught by religion which really makes men obey moral rules or rules of moral duct. I showed you that religion is able to make mehe rules of moral duct principally by means of an anisation called the Church which awakens and kindles in men an inspiration or liviion necessary to make them to obey those rules. Now, in ao your question I am going to tell you that the system of the teags of fucius, called fuism, the State Mencius, speaking of the two purest and most Christlike characters in ese history, said: "When men heard of the spirit and temper of Po-yi and Shu-ch*i, the dissolute ruffian became unselfish and the cowardly man had ce. " Mencius Bk. Ill, Part II, IX, religion in a, like the Church religion in other tries, makes mehe rules of moral duct also by means of an anisation corresponding to the Church of the Church religion in other tries. This anisation iate religion of fuism in a is_the school. The school is the Church of the State religion of fucius in a. As you know, the same word " chiao" in ese fion is also the word for education. In fact, as the Chur a is the schoion to the ese means education, culture. The aim and object of the school in a is not, as in modern Europe and America to-day, to teach men how to earn a living, how to make money, but, like the aim and object of the Church religion, to teach men to uand what Mr. Froude calls the primitive a, "Thou shalt not lie" and" Thou shall not steal" ;in fact, to teach men to be good. "Whether we provide for a or versation, " says Dr. Johnson. "whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge ht and wrong; the , an acquaintah the history of mankind and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. "
But then we have seen that the Church of the Church religion is able to make mehe rules of moral duct by awakening and kindling in men an inspiration or liviion, and that it awakens and kihis inspiration or liviion principally by exg and arousing the feeling aion of unbounded admiration, love, ahusiasm for the character and person of the first Teacher and Founder ion. Now, here there is a differeween the school_the Church of the State religion of fucius in a_and the Church of the Church religion in other tries. The school_ the Church of the State religion in a_it is true, enables and makes mehe rules of moral duct, also like the Church of the Church religion, by awakening and kindling in men an inspiration or liviion. But the means which the school in a uses to awaken and kihis inspiration or liviion in men are different from those of the Church of the Church religion in other tries. The school, the Church of the State religion of fucius in a, does not awaken and kihis inspiration or liviion in men by exg and arousing the feeling of unbounded admiration, love, ahusiasm for fucius. fucius in his lifetime did indeed inspire in his immediate disciples a feeling aion of unbounded admiration, love, ahusiasm, and, after his death, has inspired the same feeling aion in all great men who have studied and uo