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Six centuries
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The Chinese have preserved in their traditions the remembrance of a religion which had ceased to exist among them five or six centuries before our era. More surprising still is it that this singular people, in losing its primitive , seems to have understood that divinity is simply the collective me of : so that, more than two thousand years ago, China had reached, in its commonly-accepted belief, the latest results of the philosophy of the Occident. "What Heaven sees and understands," it is written in the Shu-king, "is only that which the people see and under-stand. What the people deem worthy of reward and punishment is that which ishes to punish and reward". Confucius expressed: "Gain the affection of the people, and you gain empire. Lose the affection of the people, and you lose empire." There, then, general reason was regarded as queen of the world, a distinction which elsewhere has been bestowed upon revelations. The Tao-te- king is still more explicit. In this work, which is but an outline criticism of pure reason, the philosopher Lao-tse continually identifies, under the name of Tao, reason and the infinite being; and all the obscurity of the book of Lao-tse consists, in my opinion, of this constant identification of which our religious and metaphysical habits have so widely separated.
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