And this, too, curiously enough, in spite of the fact that to explain the cosmos the Chinamen invented, or perhaps only adapted, a singularly sexual philosophy.

For possibly, like some other portions of their intellectual wealth, they stole it from India.

The Chinese conception of the origin of the world is based on the idea of sex.

According to their notions the earth was begotten.

It is true that with them the cosmos started in an abstract something, which self-produced two great principles; but this pair once obtained, matters proceeded after the analogy of mankind.