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Excerpt from Mémoires Concernant l'Histoire les Sciences, les Arts, les Moeurs les Usages, &C. Des Chinois, Vol. 2: Par les Missionnaires de Pékin
Quant au fond de la chofe, on doit fe fouvenir que c'eû un homme pieux religieux, un Mi?ion 'naire qui ecrit; qui a trouvé dans les monumens de la haute Antiquité chinoife des traces de ce dogme; qui a lu que douze cens ans avant C. On difoit à la Chine que Dieu etait Un Trois que la grande Unité comprend Trois que cette grande Unité etait le Tien, ou le Ciel que le Tien etait le Dieu de l'univers.
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