But I Wish To Point Out That

Another Important Historical Factor Is The Fact That This Already Very Simple Religion Was Further Simplified And Purified By The Early Philosophers Of Ancient China. Our First Great Philosopher Was A Founder Of Naturalism; And Our Second Great Philosopher Was An Agnostic.

For All The Social Changes In China Can Be Traced To Their Early Beginnings In The Days When The New Tools Or Vehicles Of Commerce And Locomotion First Brought The Chinese People Into Unavoidable Contact With The Strange Ways And Novel Goods Of The Western Peoples.

Practically All The Prominent Leaders Of Thought In China Today Are Openly Agnostics And Even Atheists.

The Chinese People, Too, Went Through All Kinds Of Vicissitudes In Their Religious Development.

But I Wish To Point Out That It Is Entirely Wrong To Say That The Chinese Are Not Religious.