"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."

History, Experience, Europe, Religious

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"It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be."

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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."

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"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."

Values, Value

"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."

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"Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights."

Life, Oil, Shops

"In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding."

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"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."

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"The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development."

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"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."

Truth, Responsibility, Sense

"And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools."

Time, Present, Schools

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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