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Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Idol Factory. battle fought by the soldiers of Hades, whose battalionsare marshalled on the nightly plain. The Idol Factory—The manufacture of images isan important branch of trade, and is gisnerally considereda profitable industry. It is not an art, as where in Italianmarble by master-hands the body of man is chiselledin proportions so majestic, so gigantic, that men scarcely 17 258 The Dragon, Image, and Demon. know which most to admire, the sculptor or the statue.The Chinese figures are misproportioned, grotesque,and hideous; their faces are grum, frightful, and repul-sive ; if sitting they are awkward and clumsy, whenstanding the images are both fantastic and cadaverous.Why these hideous idols ? Christianity teaches of a Godof love; paganism, of deities w^ho will punish the wrong-
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Unfinished Images. doer. The gentler attributes of the Godhead—love, pity,compassion, gentleness, longsuffering—are little taughtby heathenism. Walk into one of the shops, with several hundredimages of all sizes, from three inches to ten feet high.If of wood the head is on the counter, the arm on thebench, the body on the floor, and the foot on the shelf;the foot is pinned to the leg, the leg to the body, the The Idolatry of Buddhism. . 259 arm to the shoulder, the head to the neck, and lo ! itis a god! Opposite the shop, basking in the sun, there is a lineof rough mud daubs, rude and shaggy, drying ; for bonesthey have a framework of wood, mud for flesh, paint forskin, and the heart is made of silver or pewter. Note thehole in the back. A frog, snake, lizard, or centipede iscaught and put inside for the soul, and then it is a livingdeity, and they fall down and worship, and say, ^ Deliverme, for thou art my God. In the temples you see thelarge images at every stage of erection ;

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