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

-Hu Shih

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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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"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people."

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"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."

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