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Conscious of the obvious tendency,
Voltaire and others have triumphed in the great antiquity of the
Chinese, and in the distant period they ascribe to the creation.

Word:

Antiquity

Question:

How did Voltaire and others use the idea of the great antiquity of the Chinese and the distant period they ascribe to the creation?

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What did the Chinese legislators present to their people for worship and how did they accommodate their people's superstitious beliefs?

The Chinese legislators presented to their people no other object of worship than Tien Kamti, the material heavens and their influencing power, which excluded an intelligent principle. They also permitted their people the use of sacrifices to those Lucretian gods of superstitious fear.