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.Hu Shih
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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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Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Beloved,
Chinese,
Electric,
Elimination,
Gas,
Invading,
Life,
Lights,
Oil,
Own,
Read,
Saw,
Shanghai,
Standard,
Their,
Vegetable,
Village,
Within
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