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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER'* 
Earth, Heaven, and Nip,han [Nivan] displayed, it is related that 
men long continued in a state of innocence after their creation, but 
were seduced at length by Man Pachon or spirits, who instilled evil 
into their minds; that good spirits came xo counteract the mischief 
done by the evil ones; and that both followed men like their shadows. 
But as the first became overmatched, mankind found it necessary to 
set up things and to frame Laws. I may here observe that copies 
of the three Digests first mentioned were presented by me some 
years ago to the Royal Asiatic Society, 
