the Norsemen_, by H. A. Guerber. These resemblances
and the further one--namely, the dualism in the prechaotic epoch
(a very interesting point in Scandinavian mythology)--illustrate the
danger of inferring identity of origin from similarity of physical,
intellectual, or moral results. Several remarkable parallelisms of
Chinese religious and mythological beliefs with those recorded in
the Hebrew scriptures may also be briefly noted. There is an age
of virtue and happiness, a garden with a tree bearing 'apples of
immortality,' guarded by a winged serpent (dragon), the fall of man,
the beginnings of lust and war (the doctrine of original sin), a great
flood, virgin-born god-men who rescue man from barbarism and endow
him with superhuman attributes, discipleship, worship of a Virgin
Mother, trinities, monasticism, celibacy, fasting, preaching, prayers,
primeval Chaos, Paradise, etc. For details see _Chinese Repository,_
vii, 520-521.

[7] _Cf._ the dwarfs in the Scandinavian myth.

[8] See Legge, _Shu ching_, ii, 320, note.

[9] In order to avoid misunderstanding, it is as well to note that the
mention of the _t'ai chi_ in the _Canon of Changes (I ching_) no more
constituted monism the philosophy of China than did the steam-driven
machinery mentioned by Hero of Alexandria constitute the first century
B.C. the 'age of steam.' Similarly, to take another example, the idea
of the earth's rotundity, though conceived centuries before Ptolemy
in the second century, did not become established before the sixteenth
century. It was, in fact, from the _I ching_ that the Chinese derived
their _dualistic_ (not their monistic) conception of the world.

[10] "Formerly, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt that I was a butterfly, flying
about and feeling that it was enjoying itself. I did not know that
it was Chou. Suddenly I awoke and was myself again, the veritable
Chou. I did not know whether it had formerly been Chou dreaming that
he was a butterfly, or whether it was now a butterfly dreaming that
it was Chou." _Chuang Tzu_, Book II.

[11] See the present writer's _China of the Chinese_, chapter viii.

[12] See Du Bose, pp. 282, 286, 361, 409, 410, and _Journal of the
North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society_, xxxiv, 110-111.

[13] Du Bose, p. 38.

[14] He is sometimes represented as a reincarnation of Wen Chung;
see p. 198.

[16] See footnote, p. 107.

[17] _Religion_, p. 177.

[18] See _Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists_, by Si