The Spirit of the Orient
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Save for a few men who penetrated India, and for the coming of the Buddhist religion, no debt is acknowledged to any but to themselves. Thus the em- pire becomes "The Middle Kingdom, " the middle of the earth, the centre of enlightenment, surrounded with outer darkness and a fringe of savages. We must dwell upon this feature and em- 149 Cbe Spirit of tfie HDrient phasize it, for it is the key to our ex- planation at once of the institutions and character of the people and of the problems with w...hich modern states- manship, science, philanthropy and missions must deal. Thus understood, we shall perceive that the Chinese are not inherently different from the rest of mankind. For far less reasons the Greeks looked down upon all peoples as upon barba- rians and thought it a virtue to hate un- reservedly the foreign nature. So pro- vincials the world over have thought themselves the elect of heaven. Com- mon as all this is, and familiar from countless instances known to our- selves, even among Americans with all our opportunities for knowledge of other localities, in China provincialism has been made racial by the situation of the country and by its wide separa- tion from other favored sections of the globe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Save for a few men who penetrated India, and for the coming of the Buddhist religion, no debt is acknowledged to any but to themselves. Thus the em- pire becomes "The Middle Kingdom, " the middle of the earth, the centre of enlightenment, surrounded with outer darkness and a fringe of savages. We must dwell upon this feature and em- 149 Cbe Spirit of tfie HDrient phasize it, for it is the key to our ex- planation at once of the institutions and character of the people and of the problems with w...hich modern states- manship, science, philanthropy and missions must deal. Thus understood, we shall perceive that the Chinese are not inherently different from the rest of mankind. For far less reasons the Greeks looked down upon all peoples as upon barba- rians and thought it a virtue to hate un- reservedly the foreign nature. So pro- vincials the world over have thought themselves the elect of heaven. Com- mon as all this is, and familiar from countless instances known to our- selves, even among Americans with all our opportunities for knowledge of other localities, in China provincialism has been made racial by the situation of the country and by its wide separa- tion from other favored sections of the globe.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by George William Knox to read onlineMoreLess
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