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

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 July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

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

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

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

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