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Across China On FootThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high...

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Excerpt from The Inner Chamber of the Science of MentalphysicsFor such a man to discover from intuitive processes the power of the Word and of Sound is to reveal the scope of his mind and his thinking power.Conrad Speaks of the right accent. This is what gives power to a word. Thus this is a confession that it is not so much the meaning of a word as its sound that gives it its effectiveness. He speaks of such words as Glory, Pity, Fatherland, ...

Excerpt from The Inner Chamber of the Science of MentalphysicsWe should do all that we can to become convinced of the possibility of living to a great age. Every bit of evidence that comes our way should be carefully considered. To know how to live is, as we have found out, a profound and subtle science, and it is obvious that no other subject of equal importance as longevity can be presented for our consideration. In our consideration of the ...

Excerpt from The Science of MentalphysicsSit in straight-backed chair, or stool, with the spine erect take time to see that spine is straight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format ...

Excerpt from Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform MovementTo travel in China is easy. To walk across China, over roads 'acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilised country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation unequalled for crudeness and insanitation, is not easy. In deciding to travel in China, I determined to cross overland from the head of the Yangtze Gorges to British Burma on foot, and, althoug...

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Excerpt from The Inner Chamber of the Science of Mentalphysics In this Commentary I quote freely from.the article in Scribner's Monthly, above referred to. Authorities on vital statistics, such as Lord Bacon, Flourens, Hufeland, Buffon and others, have contributed valuable information on the subject 3 yet their pages read like an Eastern romance, so interwoven do we find valuable counsel and superstitious belief. Lord Bacon thought that some ...

Excerpt from The Inner Chamber of the Science of MentalphysicsThe people implored him to calm this havoc. He willed and all ceased and the sky was calm as before.While no mention is made of The Word here, it is clear that in giving divine power to the stick the master uttered his command in a word and further must have used a word in what is related as he willed and all ceased.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands ...

This book, first published in 1911, is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild and woolly territory to Burma. Along the way, Dingle absorbed an enormous amount of about life and society in southwest China, and describes what he sees in a readable and sensitive way.

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...

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Excerpt from Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform MovementTo travel in China is easy. To walk across China, over roads 'acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilised country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation unequalled for crudeness and insanitation, is not easy. In deciding to travel in China, I determined to cross overland from the head of the Yangtze Gorges to British Burma on foot, and, althoug...

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In the early 1900s a man named Edwin John Dingle embarked on a remarkable mapping expedition of China. Overcoming incredible odds and many dangerous situations that threatened his life, he succeeded in his mission, crossing areas of China where no Westerner had ever been before, and eventually reached Tibet. There, he became one of the first Westerners (if not the first) to study in a Tibetan monastery. Upon his eventual return to the West, he...