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

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

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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."

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

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

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