Note 344 — Chapter XXI · FREETHOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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Thus the third emperor of the Ming dynasty in China (1425–1435), referring to the belief in a future life, makes the avowal: “I am fain to sigh with despair when I see that in our own day men are just as superstitious as ever” (Prof. E. H. Parker, China and Religion, 1905, p. 99). ↑