THREE TEACHINGS
"The teachings of Confucius are ethical. 'They supply a complete direction as to conduct, but leave untouched the emotional springs. Buddhism! in the ultimate does not stimulate action, but endurance. It is said, you know, that if a Westerner, an Indian, and a Chinese living together in a room were suddenly to find the rain coming in through a hole in the roof, the Westerner would mend it, the Indian sit under it, and the Chinese move to the other side of the rcom. I feel that Christianity would give us what the Buddhist and Confucian philosophies lack. It would fulrnish the motive power not to ignore, but to combat material ills, and at the sarnie time engender an increase cf sp'iritulal life."—Dr Francis Wei, the President of Wuchang University.
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Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3359, 26 August 1933, Page 3
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132THREE TEACHINGS Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3359, 26 August 1933, Page 3
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