A General View of Chinese Civilization and of the Relations of the West With China - Couverture souple
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In 1859 and 1860 I delivered a course of free public lectures on the General History of Humanity.1 Three of the lectures in that course were devoted to Confucius and Chinese Civilization ;and these I now publish. My main object in singling out this particular portion of a vast body of doctrine for separate publication is to bring to the notice of the higher minds and hearts amongst us the need there is for setting on foot a reasonable and moral policy for regulating the relations of theW est with the rest of theW orld. Those relations are coming more and more under the direction of a commercialism of the baser sort, or of a narrow proselytism, which is often, after all, very little better than a pretext for furthering some political or mercantile object. I am in hopes, also, that this sample of a political conception, based on a thorough philosophic study of the situation which it is desired to modify, will suffice to convince reflecting minds of the necessity of bringing to the study of social phenomena at least the same degree of attention and perseverance as is required for the study of the simpler phenomena of life and of the world. Moreover, the institution of a policy which embraces in its scope the whole extent of our planet, is not only an object of high importance, in itself, but is also connected, both directly and indirectly, with the more pressing needs of the reorganization of the WT est: 1T he program of the course is published at the end of this volume, hy way of giving a general idea of its scope. For fuller details, see the opening lecture, published by Dunod, quai des Augustins 49, Paris, in 1vol. 8vo, entitled Philosophic Course on the General History of Humanity, by M. Pierre Laffitte.
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