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The 'Clear Far-seeing Tower' or Lookout in the Midst of the 

 Examination Halls at Nanking. 



special ceremonies. Under him, the system of education, dimly begun 

 before Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees and continued till to-day, 

 took on most of its modern aspects, so that 627 A. D. may be taken as 

 the real birth time of this method of preparing statesmen by study and 

 degrees. The colleges in Peking and all the chief cities were co- 

 ordinated, and the officers of the empire recruited from the examina- 

 tion halls. These literary degrees in China dating from the seventh 



Main Corridor, Examination Halls, Canton. 

 right angles to the walk. 



Long rows of stalls on either side at 



