[307] Ib., 94-5.
[308] Reinaud and Favé, p. 254.
[309] Ency. Metropol., art. “China,” p. 593.
[310] Incarville, in Reinaud and Favé, p. 259.
[311] These Fathers were strangers to the “doute méthodique” of MM. Langlois and Seignobos, and they certainly did not scan the pages of their vast Chinese Encyclopædias with the doubting eye of Heine:—
“Augen gab uns Gott ein Paar,
Dans wir schauen rein und klar;
Um zu glauben was wir lesen,
Wär’ ein Auge gnug gewesen.”
[312] Sir Henry Yule, in Ency. Brit., v. 628.