The Chinese are emphatically not a religious people, though they are very superstitious.

Belief in a God has come down from the remotest ages, but the old simple creed has been so overlaid by Buddhism as not to be discernible at the present day.

Buddhism is now the dominant religion of China.

It is closely bound up with the lives of the people, and is a never-failing refuge in sickness or worldly trouble.

It is no longer the subtle doctrine which was originally presented to the people of India, but something much more clearly defined and appreciable by the plainest intellect.