The Chinese People, Too, Went Through All

The Knowledge That Mankind Needs Is Not The Way Or Principle Which Has An Absolute Existence, But The Particular Truths For Here And Now And For Particular Individuals. Absolute Truth Is Imaginary, Abstract, Vague, Without Evidence, And Cannot Be Demonstrated.

And Revolutions Always Mean The Breakdown Of Old Authority.

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.

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.

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.