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Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Confucius
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Latin form of the name of the great sage of China, Kung Futsze, and the founder of a religion which is based on the worship and practice of morality as exemplified in the lives and teachings of the wise men who have gone before, and who, as he conceived, have made the world what it is, and have left it to posterity to build upon the same basis; while he lived he was held in greater and greater honour by multitudes of disciples, till on his death he became an object of worship, and even his descendants came to be regarded as a kind of sacred caste; he flourished about 550 B.C.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Confucius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/confucius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Confucius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/confucius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
