Confucius for T. Horne

Wrote Thomas Paine about the Christian creed in his Age of Reason, “similar systems of morality had been preached by Confucius, and by some of the Greek philosophers”.

The Internet brought a print for T. Horne, of the Chinese lore around the time of Thomas Paine.

In quality and scope, the book is more of a brochure. You do not find a glyph of Chinese here, yet had it been written in Chinese, you might imagine an astounded shogun as he raises his eyes from the text and says, I have to go see the Chinese.
“That love (…), it is a Natural Property of man, which dictates unto him, that he ought generally to love all men.”

China would have been a big country gone mad.

On the side here, I do not understand why say [konfushus]; it sounds like you are having fudge, the candy, while [konfōōsyoos] remains an attainable word shape by speakers worldwide.

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Impressions

The brochure was not always for T. Horne, but the same content had reprints, 17th to 19th century. Thomas Paine or Henry Thoreau likely had a glimpse. Let us think what there could be of impression.

There was a table where the design worked as long as its creator lived. Prince Fohi “thought at last upon making a table, composed of some little lines which it is not necessary to describe. It is сеrtain, that after his death no use could be made thereof”, pp. 27-28.

Prince Venwam “very severely accused himself of not being virtuous enough; for one day when he was sick, the earth being shook with prodigious earthquakes, he sought the cause of this calamity, and of the wrath of Heaven, only in his own sins, although he was of a consummate virtue”.

Having found dry bones of a man in a field, “stripping himself of his royal vestment, he commanded it to be used instead of a winding-sheet, to wrap up these bones, and bury them according to the manners and custom of the country”.

Absurdity and things

On the surface of things, there is absurd. There never was a habit in China to leave corpses in fields when “the master of the deceased was unknown”, page 59.

We may yet take the absurd for a kind of coating, where the lozenge could look as in Thomas Paine’s words on science. “Almost all the scientific learning that now exists, came to us from the Greeks, or the people who spoke the Greek language”.

Thomas Paine sure had an eye for scientific allusion, and these would be
1. vector or fractal design;
2. “skeletal” or shorthand from ancient Egypt; and,
3. some solar beam technique; well, whoever believes in “prodigious” earthquakes.

Something about that Greek

Wikimedia have an interesting Greek table on show. Greek language looks a factor in Coptic. Ancient Knossos had Heliaia, a festival of optical effects for fun. Try the ■Knossos Garuda.

Ark of Covenant or angle of convergence

Other countries would have different uses for sunshine. People have already ■described arks of covenant as weapons, where convergence is a close synonym of use in optics.

Some hints made their way at the time of the American Revolution.
1. “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” — Alexander Hamilton, I775, in Conway.
2. “Is life so very long that it is necessary, nay even a duty, to shake the sand and hasten out the period of duration?” — Thomas Paine in his Abbe Raynal.

The US War of Independence

If the British Crown intended a show of “power as from God”, in establishing the colonies under king George III — I have no evidence. I doubt Hamilton or Paine would have had no ground or reference to publicize remarks as above. Paine did argue, the British military involvement on American soil was not sufficient to sustain a government, while the royalist policies were obviously conscious and drastically antagonizing.

Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands, and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor?
This is not inflaming or exaggerating matters, but trying them by those feelings and affections which nature justifies — Thomas Paine, ■Common Sense.

The policies were not the same in other places on Earth, as Canada or Australia, and it would be a crime to try introducing such anywhere today.

Solar uses likely would not have been persuasive; certainly not to all; they yet could have turned out overwhelming on the American rebels, and the fight was won by its momentum, as it is probably even cliche to say nowadays, also if to add, Americans were expected to oppose.

However, as predictably, the British loved their meadows.

Researched, civilian or weaponized solar beaming techniques certainly do deserve inclusion with school curricula, of course without excess detail, like nuclear fission is included.

Innocent Confucius

Confucius remains innocent. I have not read all Chinese, obviously, but I have read all those available yans. This is enough to say, some yans are to remember, and no true yan recommends abuse. Mandarin already allows saying so, and more, innovations of times after the philosopher were rejected by China with the ■Simplified Chinese. If there is evidence otherwise, please use my contact page in the footer below.

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Education

Nowadays, people leaving school would be to look at the ■glassy walls of Peru as by a thousand men who pulled one stone; and having pulled many, they put those stones up to a height that ■pole vaulting could take.

The walls of Jericho might be a case where the story is told kind of backwards, yet the question remains the same — is it to show man for nonsense, or to question any knowledge about man?

Knowledge or fancy

The Independent, co.uk, would fancy the US Secretary of State Rubio as saying, “the old order is gone”. He clearly says “the old world is gone”. Why the fancy?

There are the stories of the new world order as purportedly “foretold” in the US Great Seal, though it really might be that the Seal does not say that, and those would be the British either not to understand or remember their cause.

History has it, Benjamin Franklin explained to the British team what the Seal meant, and they had no objections. How likely did he say, “a new world order”? Feel welcome, ■A New People Come.

However, “an order gone” might figure with the brochure above, where supposedly Confucius “with great bitterness of spirit, lamented the disorders of his time”. Page 41 tells the grief: “O great Mountain, what art thou become! This important machine is subverted!”

Here is Mr. Rubio and the “old world” gone; a metaphor I take it, for former dealings: ■https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/QnHWtAvQ.

The Sun is plainly a physical factor, and this schools fortunately do say. Otherwise, we might be telling stories of the star wandering around Earth, after the regular pattern, where sooner or later, the Sun having been on the side of London and then also Peru, it comes to be on the side of Moscow. Only would they be making any ■Eliaia.

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