Practically All The Prominent Leaders Of Thought

The Most Outstanding Characteristic Of Eastern Civilization Is To Know Contentment, Whereas That Of Western Civilization Is Not To Know Contentment. Contented Easterners Are Satisfied With Their Simple Life And Therefore Do Not Seek To Increase Their Material Enjoyment... They Are Satisfied With Their Present Lot And Environment And Therefore Do Not Want To Conquer Nature But Merely Be At Home With Nature And At Peace With Their Lot.

In Such Diffused Changes Of Culture Two Factors Are Necessary: Contact And Understanding.

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.

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.