Sir Alfred Lyall
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Lyall
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Writer cited on the Chinese government's dealings with lesser gods.
Sir Alfred Lyall has amusingly described the liberties which the Chinese Government takes with war-gods and river-gods, promoting and deposing them by acts of State;
Here, in order to understand some of the most interesting of Sir Alfred Lyall’s observations, we must attend to his distinction between pure and impure tribes.
The most original result of Sir Alfred Lyall’s investigations is his determination of the manner in which impure clans are formed.