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

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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

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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 the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

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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.

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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 17th, 1891

Died: February 24th, 1962

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