Note 1 — Chapter XXXVII · RELIGION.

This word, pronounced in a slightly different way in Corean, is the term which Dr. James Legge, in his “Religions of China,” and many missionaries of Reformed Christianity, translate God (Jehovah, Theos), but which the Roman Catholic missionaries are forbidden to use. Dr. Legge holds that Shang Ti is the most ancient title of Deity in the language of the Chinese, and was used by their ancestors when they held to primitive monotheism. “In the ceremonies at the altars of heaven and earth, they served God” (Confucius). ↑