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We have observed elsewhere, that the example of the insurgents is of little value as philological argument, because they borrowed their religious terms, as they did their views of doctrine, mainly from the foreigners who preceded them. Their practice, however, shows to what class of terms they felt most inclined; and from this we find that they employed Shang-te and its cognates for God by way of eminence, in almost every instance. This is indeed the rule observed in their books, while the use of him, in the same sense, is the exception.

W.H.M.