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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

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

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

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

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

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

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

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

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.