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Onward To Speak: With Christianity, these ideas took on a further spiritual emphasis and it became a commonplace from the time of the Gospels onward to speak of the rebirth of a soul in Christ. The Middle Ages thus inherited from antiquity a secular tradition centering on the possibility of a recurrence of a golden age, and from Christianity a sacred tradition with its theme of incarnation and regeneration of the individual and eventually of society as a whole. Elements from both these traditions w:ere combined in the earliest thinking about the Renaissance.
The editor of the British Journal of Photography wrote in 1879 that the year would "be looked back to in the future as one of the most noteworthy epochs in the history of photography." His prediction was exact. In every Camera club there was talk of gelatin:
Onward still, and onward still it runs its sticky way, And Gelatine you're bound to use if you mean to
make things pay.
Collodion—slow old fogey!—your palmy days have been, You must give place in the future to the plates of Gelatine.
There are many minorities that speak non-Chinese languages that belong neither to the Altaic nor the Sino-Tibetan group. These include the 14,000 Tajiks of southwestern Sinkiang, who speak an Iranic language of the Indo-European group, and the Wa and Puman people who speak an Austroasian language. The Wa and Puman are fierce tribesmen who live on both sides of the Yiinnan-Burma border and number only about 100,000. The Austronesian or Ma-layo-Polynesian language is also spoken in China by various groups, predominantly in Taiwan.
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