After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.Hu Shih
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Hu Shih
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
Hu Shih
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.
Hu Shih
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.
Hu Shih
The Renaissance movement of the last two decades differs from all the early movements in being a fully conscious and studied movement.
Hu Shih
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