See De Groot, "Origins of the Taoist Church" in Trans. Third Congress Hist. Relig. 1908.
[565] Chang Yüan-hsü, who held office in 1912, was deprived of his titles by the Republican Government. In 1914 petitions were presented for their restoration, but I do not know with what result. See Peking Daily News, September 5th, 1914.
[566] Something similar may be seen in Mormonism where angels and legends have been invented by individual fancy without any background of tradition.
[569] The sixth Æneid would seem to a Chinese quite a natural description of the next world. In it we have Elysium, Tartarus, transmigration of souls, souls who can find no resting place because their bodies are unburied, and phantoms showing still the wounds which their bodies received in life. Nor is there any attempt to harmonize these discordant ideas.
