chapter 6

作品:The Spirit of the Chinese People 作者:辜鸿铭 字数: 下载本书  举报本章节错误/更新太慢

    In fact,  to say  ty of t t t. All primitive people also live a life of t. tian people of medieval Europe, as . Matt;try of medieval Cainity lived by t and imagination.quot; But ty of t to say ,  ionality

    ian people of medieval Europe or in any otive people. In oty of t for a people, ion of adult reason, t able to to live t.

    Instead, t ted development, one ougo say t t ty of t t of perpetual youth.

    Noion  reason  of a c t of a c, t of perpetual yout of national immortality. No of tional immortality in t in t o type of y_to tleness is t I called sympatic or true elligence. true elligence, I said, is t of a combination of telligence. It is a oget and  it is a ellect. No of t of perpetual yout of national immortality, t of tality is tellect.

    You  of national immortality_tellect, o live a life of perpetual yout t it from tion. No expect me to give you a lecture on Cion ime at my disposal. But I ry to tell you sometion  of discussion.

    Let me first of all tell you t t seems to me, one great fundamental difference betion and tion of modern Europ.  me quote an admirable saying of a famous living art critic, Mr. Bernard Berenson. Comparing European al art, Mr. Berenson says:_quot;Our European art al tendency to become science and tlefield for divided interests. quot; No to say of tion is t it is, as Mr. Berenson says of European art, a battlefield for divided interests; a continuous erests of science and art on t a terrible battlefield ellect_come into constant conflict. In tion, at least for t , years, t. t, I say, is t fundamental difference betion and t of modern Europe.

    In ot I  to say, is t in modern Europe, tisfies t, but not tisfies t not t. No us look at C t is certainly true t in C take seriously to religion. I mean religion in temples, rites and ceremonies of taoism and Budds of recreation tion; toucic sense, so to speak, of t, to tion to t or soul. But instead of saying t t is per to say t t _do not feel the need of religion.

    Noion of traordinary fact t tion in C feel t is t K. Douglas, Professor of Cy, in udy of Confucianism, says:_quot;Upy generations of Cely subjected to ta of one man. Being a Ceaced to ture of taugly pic and. unspeculative, naturally rebels against tigating matters beyond its experiences. iture life still unater-of-fact system of morality, suc enunciated by Confucius,  for all ts of t;

    t l_amed Englis,  feel teac ogets t t feel tic and unspeculative. In t place religion is not a matter of speculation. Religion is a matter of feeling, of emotion; it is someto do  is called tic and unspeculative, t must be admitted, is a ype of man t feel take for he place of religion.