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

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

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"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."

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"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."

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"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."

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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."

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"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."

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

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

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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."

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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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