"There are many pharisees in literature as well as in religion, wrapped up in the garments of self-idolatry, and making their very deficiencies the ground of their highest complacency. There are many blind wanderers through unbounded fields of instruction, who can discover nothing but nakednessānothing but barrenness around them. Fertility itself offers no attractions to themāhow much less can they understand the power of that benign principle which makes the waters gush forth, fresh, pure, and sparkling, from the very rocks of the desert."
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John Bowring
Sir John Bowring KCB (Chinese translated name: åƶåƧ,åƶé or å 令) (17 October 1792 ā 23 November 1872) was an English political economist, traveler, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.
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