| Summary: | And Early Explorations 611 the Confucian classics in the Twelfth century, wrote: "The Great Extreme is merely the immaterial principle; it is found in the male and female principles in nature, in the five elements and in all things. From the time the Great Extreme, came into operation, all things were produced by transformation. The Great Extreme has neither residence, form, nor place which you can assign to it. If you speak of it before its development, then, previous to that emanation it was perfect stillness. Motion and rest, with the male and female principles of nature (force and matter), are only the descent and embodiment of this principle. It is the immaterial principle of the two Powers, the four Forms, and the Eight Changes of Nature. We cannot say that it does not exist, and yet no form of corporeity can be ascribed to it. It produced one male and one female principle of Nature, which are called the Dual Powers." It appears that the two central and peculiar figures of the trade mark were meant by Chow Lien Ki as substituted for, or a more graphic representation of the Two Principles themselves These Two Principles in Chow's figure—the white and black, or red and black commas or tadpoles as they appear, are known as the Yang and Yin, and in the original they had a small black eye in the white or red and a white eye in the black portion. Although the Two Principles, or the Dual Powers, are almost universally understood in China in the sexual sense, it is insisted that their primitive meanings were light and darkness. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY In 1879, James J. Hill interested some of his moneyed friends in buying the bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad which was at one time controlled by the Northern Pacific Railroad. On May 23, 1879, he re-organized it as the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad and began building more line. Mr. Hill had intimately associated with him in the financing and building of the Great Northern Railroad, Norman W. Kittson, the Red River fur trader; George Stevens, of Montreal, (Lord Mount Stevens), president of both the Bank of Montreal and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona, of Winnipeg, head of the Hudson Bay Company in Canada. Lord Mount Stevens and Lord Strathcona were cousins. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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