Excerpt from The Religious System of China, Vol. 6: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspect; Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith; Book II, on the Soul and Ancestral Worship; Part IV, the War Against Spectres; Part V, the Priesthood of Animism Now we have taken our rapid survey of what may be sai to be the framework of China's system of Religion. We Taoistic, since it consists of the doctrine that the world by; shen and kwei evolved from the Yang and the Yin, the tudes of Whose operations constitute the Tao or Order of the The religion built up around that frame we must conse likewise call Taoistic or Taoism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.