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

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

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

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.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.

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