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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.