Page:Horæ Sinicæ, Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese (horsinictran00morrrich, Morrison, 1812).djvu/51



Foe was the founder of a sect, which in Japan and China now prevails to a great extent. This account of him is translated from a Chinese work, entitled, San-kiao-yuen-lieu, "The rise and progress of the three sects," viz. those of Kung-fu-tsi, Foe, and Tao-szi.

The work begins with the life of Confucius, and after the accounts of Foe, and Tao, gives the lives of a great number of subordinate deities,