It Is True That The Chinese Are

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.

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.

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.

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.

Life And Human Society Are The Chief Concern Of Confucianism And, Through It, The Chief Concern Of The Chinese People.