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

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

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.

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

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

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.