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good and reject the bad. They are printed 

 at Canton, and a part of them at Goa in India, 

 in Chinefe and Latin, under the infpection of 

 the Sicilian Intorcetta, fubfcribed by 16 Ro- 

 man catholic fathers, in the year 1676. Kir- 

 cher promifed to publifh this philofophy with 

 the commentaries upon it, which he had trans- 

 lated into Latin at Rome 5 but foon after the 

 writings of thefe philofophers were publifhed 

 in Latin at Paris, 1687. The editors 

 cf this edition were, Intorcetta, Herdtrich, 

 Rougemont and Couplet. However, this edi- 

 tion little differs from that publiflied at Goa, 

 A greater book of the writings of this philo- 

 fopher was that which Couplet had with him, 

 which has been publiflied by Aymon, after it 

 had been corrected by the mod learned mem- 

 bers of the fociety, and fome Chinefe. Francif- 

 cus Noel publiflied, anno 17 n, at Prague* 

 the fix Libri Cla/Jici of the Chinefe empire *. 

 The philofophers of the fe£t of Confucius en- 

 deavour to perfuade the people that the crea- 

 tion and government of the world are effected 

 by material caufes, not to mention other unrea- 

 sonable maxims with which they diflionour their 

 Creator. 



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