It is not a conclusive proof of our being enlightened Christians, that we sneer and misinterpret bygone creeds, as though in the old Greek and Roman poetry were shewn nothing worthier than Fetish idols, rotten mummies, Australasian Ram-Jams and Ethiopian Mumbo-Jumbos.

What will please reckless, computative and vulgar persons.

Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen

The fate of the Tropical Chemical Industry Company near Chia-yi was an example.…In a similar fashion the industrial alcohol plant near Chia-yi (the largest of its kind in the Orient) was allowed to fall into complete disrepair and go out of production.