This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...under the house of Chau, that of Tsin on the Northwest had long been the most powerful, occupying nearly a fifth of the country, and its inhabitants forming a tenth of the whole population. " Mention has been made of the burning of the Ancient Books, by the founder of the Tsin dynasty. It occurred about 212 B. C, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...under the house of Chau, that of Tsin on the Northwest had long been the most powerful, occupying nearly a fifth of the country, and its inhabitants forming a tenth of the whole population. " Mention has been made of the burning of the Ancient Books, by the founder of the Tsin dynasty. It occurred about 212 B. C, and is always referred to as the greatest disaster of ancient times; and with it was coupled the slaughter of many of the literati by the same monarch. " The emperor's ministers had represented to him that the scholars of his day gave their time to the study of antiquity, and to eulogizing the rulers and the customs of former times, instead of devoting their talents, as became them, to studying the laws and strengthening the power of the government under which they lived; therefore they advised that all the books should be burned, excepting those on medicine, divination, and husbandry. The Emperor followed their suggestion. " It cannot be supposed that a complete destruction of the Ancient Books of China was effected by this monarch. " Some remained in the hands of individuals, in whole or in parts, and it was a work for future scholars to collect, arrange, and reproduce these works, some of which reproduction may have been made, perhaps, partly by the aid of memory and partly by tradition." The Tsin dynasty began in 770 B. C, in the Northwest Provinces, and obtained possession of the entire empire 250 B. C. From this monarch comes the present word " Chin" or " Sin," the word which our fellow-passengers use when talking of their country. It was while Tsin was making his conquests that Isaiah at Jerusalem, looking with prophetic vision down the future, to the time of the Messiah, wrote this sentence: &quo...
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