74 SURGEON-GENERAL C. A. GORDON, M.D., C.B., Q.H.P., ETC., 



The Author. — I desire, in the first place to express my gratifi- 

 cation and thanks for your very kind reception of my paper. 



If it had no other aim than to call forth the most valuable 

 remarks of Sir Thomas Wade, I think more than the object I 

 originally had in view vv^ould have been attained. His remarks 

 are most valuable and of course I accept the comments that he has 

 so kindly been pleased to make v^^ith regard to my paper. If I 

 should live sufficiently long to have the honour of reading 

 another before this Institute, I should endeavour to profit by those 

 comments ; but, in the meantime I would, with all defei-ence, 

 suggest whether we may not submit a request to Sir Thomas Wade 

 to formally present at a meeting of this Institute, a continuation 

 and expansion of the remarks he has made. (Applause.) I am 

 sure it would be much valued from one possessing such an 

 extensive knowledge of China, and having such experience, to say 

 nothing of the exalted reputation he has always enjoyed in that 

 country. Though I have not had the honour of his personal 

 acquaintance, still, ever since I was associated with China myself, 

 that is since the year 1860, I have heard his name constantly, and 

 it has always been mentioned in terms of the very highest respect 

 and admiration. 



I will add no more than to rejjeat the hope I have already 

 expressed. 



The Chairman. — I am sure the wish that has been expressed by 

 the author of the paper is one that will be echoed by all the Council. 

 As to the worshijD of ancestors, I think there are those at home 

 who should not say too much about the Chinese, for in some 

 places the extensive floral and other ornamentation of graves, with 

 different articles, that are put on thera, seems to find its counter- 

 part in what the Chinese do. May I ask you to join with me in 

 thanking Dr. Cordon for his very valuable paper and also Sir 

 Thomas Wade for his most valuable remarks. 



Sir Thomas Wade. — I should very much like to say that so far 

 as what I might call the archaic divisions of the paper, to which 

 we have listened with such gratification, are concerned, that any 

 one who really desii^es to get views of " Confucianism," as it was and 

 as it is, could not do better, in my opinion, than examine that not 



