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Confucianism and Its Rivals

Herbert Giles

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-06-25
主題	History / Asia / China
ISBN	15348457989781534845794
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EvWxDAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Originally delivered as part of the Hibbert Lectures, this book consists of 8 lectures that cover the history of religion in China, from 3000 BC right up to 1915."The Chinese are not, and, so far as we can judge from their history, never have been, what we understand by the term "a religious people." Consequently, we find in their biographical records extraordinarily few instances of religious fanaticism, bigotry, and persecution; still fewer, if any, examples of men and women who have suffered for their faith, when mere verbal recantation would have saved them from a dreaded fate. With a highly practical nation like the Chinese, the acts of human beings have always been reckoned as of infinitely greater importance than their opinions. The value of morality has completely overshadowed any claims of belief; duty towards one's neighbor has mostly taken precedence of duty towards God."