The Empire (Third Century B.C. to modern times)--Arguments against a Spiritual World--Attributes of G.o.d--Good and Evil--Buddhism appears--Conflict of Faiths--Struggle between Buddhism and Taoism--Taoism borrows from Buddhism and becomes a Religion--Mazdeism appears--Followed closely by Mahometanism, Nestorian Christianity, and Manichaeism--Mahometanism alone survived--Jews arrived about Eleventh Century A.D.--Chu Hsi materialised the Confucian Canon--Henceforward Agnosticism the rule for _literati_--Buddhism and Taoism (both debased) for the Ma.s.ses--The Jesuits arrive in the Sixteenth Century--Protestant Missionaries date from 1799.
SELECTED WORKS BEARING ON THE RELIGIONS OF CHINA
Religion in China. Joseph Edkins, D.D.
The Religions of China. James Legge, D.D.
The Dragon, Image and Demon, or the three Religions of China. Rev. H. C.
du Bose.
Les Religions de la Chine. C. de Harbez.
The Religious System of China: Its ancient forms, evolution, history, etc. J. J. de Groot, Ph.D.
The Sacred Books of China. James Legge, D.D.
Chinese Buddhism. Joseph Edkins, D.D.
Le Shinntoisme. Michel Revon.