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Hu Shih Quotes

Chinese - Philosopher | December 17, 1891 - February 24, 1962

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

Great Simple Religion Early First

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

Wish Wrong Say I Wish Out Point

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

People Tools Early New Strange

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

Renaissance Been Chinese Many Had

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

Culture Understanding Changes Contact

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

Language Year Question University Up

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.

History Experience India Student Say

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.

Poetry People Writing Language Now

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.

Knowledge Achievement Death Better

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

People Development Through Kinds Too

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.

Life Love Great Together Rise May

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.

Life Lights Village My Own Oil Own

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