Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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