And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

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.

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.

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

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.