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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.” quote by Hu Shih — Download Open image

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

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

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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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

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

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

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