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| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. XXXIV. RELIGION OF THE CATHAYANS
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better, or from a bad to a worse, according as he hath
conducted himself well or ill. That is to say, a poor man,
if he have passed through life good and sober, shall be
born again of a gentlewoman, and shall be a gentleman ;
and on a second occasion shall be born of a princess
and shall be a prince, and so on, always rising, till he
be absorbed into the Deity. But if he have borne himself
ill, he who was the son of a gentleman shall be reborn as
the son of a boor, and from a boor shall become a dog,
always going down lower and lower.
The people have an ornate style of speech ; they
salute each other with a cheerful countenance, and with
great politeness ; they behave like gentlemen, and eat
with great propriety.4 They show great respect to their
parents ; and should there be any son who offends his
parents, or fails to minister to their necessities, there is
a public office which has no other charge but that of
punishing unnatural children, who are proved to have
acted with ingratitude towards their parents.'
Criminals of sundry kinds who have been imprisoned,
are released at a time fixed by the Great Kaan (which
occurs every three years), but on leaving prison they are
branded on one cheek that they may be recognized.
The Great Kaan hath prohibited all gambling and
sharping, things more prevalent there than in any other
part of the world. In doing this, he said : " I have con-
quered you by force of arms, and all that you have is
mine ; if, therefore, you gamble away your property, it
is in fact my property that you are gambling away."
Not that he took anything from them however.
I must not omit to tell you of the orderly way in
which the Kaan's Barons and others conduct themselves
in coming to his presence. In the first place, within a
coming
half mile of the place where he is, out of reverence for
his exalted majesty, everybody preserves a mien of the
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