Chronology Entry
Year
1869
Text
Mahaffy, J[ohn] P[entland]. Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations [ID D27612].
Er schreibt :
Hieroglyphics : "Their very earliest monuments show the existence of picture writing. This has been the first form of writing everywhere – in Babylon, in China, in Mixico, and amont the North American Indians". (S. 48)
"Cinnamon, ivory, and the silk of India and China first found their way to Europe through the Babylonians, and by the hands of the Phoenicians." (S. 71).
"Inscriptions have been found in China attesting the early spread of this language of Christianity, as well as its principles, into the East." (S. 95)
"I ought perhaps to except the Chinese, whose civilization is said to be a perfectly original and independent development, like that of Egypt or Babylonia." (S. 198)
"The inspired rapture of poetry, and the quaint beauty of simple narrative – these literary gifts are common to both races. In all these perfections they stand opposed, not only to the savage races of the globe, which have never shown any capacities for development, but also to the earlier civilizations of Egypt, Bybylon, and of China". (S. 192)
"Even at the present day, some of the most purely religions and nobly moral of the Aryans are far behind the Chinese in all the material comforts of life… We notice the first appearance of culture on the globe – in Eastern Asia, the Chinese – in Western Asia and Africa, the races calles Cushite and Chamitic. But even these states are all marked by a materialistic character. Their religion and poetry were not much developed. They were more disposed to material comfort than to ideal art, and showed great aptitude for all manual ingenuity. Commerce they understood thoroughly, but political and civil life was strange to them ; their constitutions were despotic, and their lower classes slaves ; their languages, particularly the Egyptian and Chinese, were monosyllabic, and devoid of grammar ; their writing hieroglyphic or ideographic. In China alone this type of civilization has lasted till our own day." (S. 293-294)
Er schreibt :
Hieroglyphics : "Their very earliest monuments show the existence of picture writing. This has been the first form of writing everywhere – in Babylon, in China, in Mixico, and amont the North American Indians". (S. 48)
"Cinnamon, ivory, and the silk of India and China first found their way to Europe through the Babylonians, and by the hands of the Phoenicians." (S. 71).
"Inscriptions have been found in China attesting the early spread of this language of Christianity, as well as its principles, into the East." (S. 95)
"I ought perhaps to except the Chinese, whose civilization is said to be a perfectly original and independent development, like that of Egypt or Babylonia." (S. 198)
"The inspired rapture of poetry, and the quaint beauty of simple narrative – these literary gifts are common to both races. In all these perfections they stand opposed, not only to the savage races of the globe, which have never shown any capacities for development, but also to the earlier civilizations of Egypt, Bybylon, and of China". (S. 192)
"Even at the present day, some of the most purely religions and nobly moral of the Aryans are far behind the Chinese in all the material comforts of life… We notice the first appearance of culture on the globe – in Eastern Asia, the Chinese – in Western Asia and Africa, the races calles Cushite and Chamitic. But even these states are all marked by a materialistic character. Their religion and poetry were not much developed. They were more disposed to material comfort than to ideal art, and showed great aptitude for all manual ingenuity. Commerce they understood thoroughly, but political and civil life was strange to them ; their constitutions were despotic, and their lower classes slaves ; their languages, particularly the Egyptian and Chinese, were monosyllabic, and devoid of grammar ; their writing hieroglyphic or ideographic. In China alone this type of civilization has lasted till our own day." (S. 293-294)
Mentioned People (1)
Mahaffy, John Pentland
(Chapponnaire bei Vevey 1839-1919 Dublin) : Professor of Classics, Trinity College Dublin
Subjects
History : China : General
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1869 |
Mahaffy, J[ohn] P[entland]. Twelve lectures on primitive civilizations, and their physical condistions : delivered at the Alexandra College. (London : Green, 1869). [Enthält Eintragungen über China]. http://ia700303.us.archive.org/19/items/twelvelectureson00maharich/twelvelectureson00maharich.pdf. |
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