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THOS. DE LA RUE AND CO., PRINTERS, BUNHILL ROW, LONDON.
FOOTNOTES
[1] “How can a statement as to customs, myths, beliefs, &c., of a savage tribe, be treated as evidence, where it depends on the testimony of some traveller or missionary, who may be a superficial observer, more or less ignorant of the native language, a careless retailer of unsifted talk, a man prejudiced or even wilfully deceitful?”—Tylor’s Primitive Culture, Vol. I., p. 9.
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[2] Said of the bogies of the hills, in allusion to their clothes. Here quoted with reference to the official classes, in ridicule of the title under which they hold posts which, from a literary point of view, they are totally unfit to occupy.
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[3] A celebrated statesman (B.C. 314) who, having lost his master’s favour by the intrigues of a rival, finally drowned himself in despair. The Annual Dragon Festival is said by some to be a “search” for his body.
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[4] A poem addressed by San-lü to his Prince, after his disgrace. Its non-success was the immediate cause of his death.
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[5] That is, of the supernatural generally.
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[6] A poet of the T‘ang Dynasty whose eyebrows met, whose nails were very long, and who could write very fast.
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[7] “You know the music of earth,” said the Taoist sage, Chuang-tzŭ; “but you have not heard the music of heaven.”
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