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Historically, There Had Been Many Periods Of Chinese Renaissance.

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.

Only When We Realize That There Is No Eternal, Unchanging Truth Or Absolute Truth Can We Arouse In Ourselves A Sense Of Intellectual Responsibility.

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

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.