No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

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

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.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

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