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Identifier: sixthousandyears01sand (find matches)
Title: Six thousand years of history
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia : E.R. DuMont
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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minute regu-lations, of the severe and constant competitive examina-tions, of the Chinese system is simply, that after the lapseof 4,000 years, they still have no convenient writtenlanguage; that, pretending to be astronomers, they knownot how to use the telescope; that the medical art is a mereignorant superstition; and that the artist cannot shade adrawing, and has no notion of perspective. The super-ficial cleverness of handiwork displayed by Chinese artisansserves but to heighten the effect of the ludicrous producedon the European mind by the paltry results of a preten-tious, antiquated, and inherently unprogressive order ofcivilization. INDIA Indian civilization, like that of China, has contributedlittle or nothing to the culture of the Western world.From the prosaic pedantry of China, however, we pass,in India, to a region where fancy and sensibility have heldsway, though the absence of energy, and of true humandignity and freedom, has prevented the people from EASTERNHEMISPHERE
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