中国人的精神

·In fact, the man and woman,—the type of human beings— which a civilization produces, it is this which shows the essence, the personality, so to speak, the soul of that civilization. ·The truth of the matter is, —the reason why the Chinese people do not feel the need of religion is because they have in Confucianism a system of philosophy and ethics, a synthesis of human society and civilization which can take the place of religion. ·But to return from the digression, I say, a society without the sense of honor cannot be held together, cannot last. ·The real organisation in the State Religion of Confucius in China corresponding exactly to the Church of the Church Religion in other countries is—the Family. ·For the womanhood in a nation is the flower of the civilization, of the state of civilization in that nation. ... The Chinese feminine ideal is an ideal with a broom in her hands to sweep and clean the rooms with. In fact the Chinese written character for a wife（妇）is composed of two radicals—（女）meaning a woman and （帚）meaning a broom. ·Thus we see the contract in a legal civic marriage in China is not between the woman and the man. The contract is between the woman and the family of her husband.

The really educated person wants to read books which will tell him the real truth about a thing, whereas the half educated person perfers to read books which will tell him what he wants the thing to be, what his vanity promotes him wish that the thing should be.