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

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

“ Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ”

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

“ But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Never before had China seen a religion so rich in imagery, so beautiful and captivating in ritualism and so bold in cosmological and metaphysical speculations. Like a poor beggar suddenly halting before a magnificent storehouse of precious stones of dazzling brilliancy and splendor, China was overwhelmed, baffled and overjoyed… ”

- Hu Shih

“ But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. ”

- Hu Shih

“ But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ”

- Hu Shih

“ 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. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ”

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

“ 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. ”

- Hu Shih

“ But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. ”

- Hu Shih

“ And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. ”

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

“ Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ”

- Hu Shih

“ 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. ”

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

“ 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. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Never before had China seen a religion so rich in imagery, so beautiful and captivating in ritualism and so bold in cosmological and metaphysical speculations. Like a poor beggar suddenly halting before a magnificent storehouse of precious stones of dazzling brilliancy and splendor, China was overwhelmed, baffled and overjoyed… ”

- Hu Shih

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

- Hu Shih

“ 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. ”

- Hu Shih

“ It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ”

- Hu Shih

“ 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. ”

- Hu Shih

“ Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. ”

- Hu Shih
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