This notion of an _Evil-one_, universal among all the Barbarians, I never well comprehended. We have in our Flowery Kingdom Sects which believe in good and bad _Spirits_; although our _Literati_ smile at such things; that is, in the vulgar forms. But the Christians assert that the Devil is too strong with men for the Supreme Lord--and the English _Sect_ say that the Pope is a very child of the Devil! To be sure, their Sect is the feeblest of all, and merely separated from the great Pope-sect upon points not touching the superstition itself, and really on selfish and personal grounds. They know that the Pope justly claims a direct and regular succession from the _Christ-God_; that he and his adherents, forming the vast majority of _Christians_ (as all the sects call themselves) are believers with themselves in all the main "_dogmas_" [ka-nti] of the Superstition; yet, none the less, they are the children of the Evil-one, and fit for Hell. And not the vulgar only, but the learned actually have a horror that the Pope may be again worshipped in England. A calamity too terrible for contemplation! The Pope-worshipping Sect repay this hate with an equal abhorrence, and send the English _heretics_ to the awful Hell, with the same satisfaction. All the Western Barbarians worship this new _Christ-God_, but, like our devoters of _Fo_, divided into many Sects, as I have already intimated. The benignant _Fo_, teaches his idolatrous devotees how to differ without hate. But, these _Christians_ are always at strife, bitter and irreconcilable; not as to essentials, even within the Superstition itself, (to say nothing of genuine morality), but as to things trivial and absurd. One will say, "Be baptised or be damned to the eternal Hell!" But another says, "Baptism is only a symbol, one may be saved without it." Then, "What is baptism?" Some say "The Priest must immerse in water;" but another, "No, the Priest must sprinkle the face only." Yet another, "Water is itself nothing, Priest nothing, unless before either, the baptism of the 'Holy Spirit' have occurred." To perfect the "rite," all say that the Priest must offer proper "Incantations," and generally in the Temples before the Idol. The contestants damn each other to everlasting torments for not being _truly_ baptised. All the Sects say, "You must believe in Christ or be damned;" but do not agree as to what this _Belief_ is, and go on damning each the other for not having truly believed.