Word: confucius
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...President. Warren G. Harding, whose friendship for China and world peace was proved by his calling the Washington Conference, was unveiled in Central Park (Peking) near the altar of the Five Earths (which symbolizes the five races of China) on the 2,400th anniversary of the death of Confucius. There were present among others: Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Minister; Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, former Chinese Minister to the U. S., who took a leading part in the Washington Conference; both gentlemen made speeches emphasizing President Harding's friendship...
...memorial which links the United States and Confucius...
...Shri Krishna of the prehistoric India, Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, Confucius, Mohammed, Zoroaster,--all these through the avenue of religion appeared before the human race and helped the human mind to evolve many of its rich potentialities of faith, righteousness, and spirituality. Personalities such as Ashoka, Charlemagne, Peter the Great, Napoleon, Mazzini, Shiwaji, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and others rose to eminence and power through sincere and farsighted service to their fellow men in organizing programs of human conduct conducive to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness in the worldly sense...
Religious books take four of his choices. He excludes the entire Bible on the ground that it is a whole literature, rather than a book, and merely chooses Isaiah and St. Mark as the two most significant books in the collection. The Koran and the "Great Learning" of Confucius, as the most representative books of two great civilizations, he throws in with the remark that "they were the creative and cohesive powers in the world second only to the Bible". Plato's "Republic" gets a place because Wells found it easy to read on the Downs of Sussex, and because...
...educational system China is in a state of transition from medieval to modern standards. Until 1905 the learning of the country was entirely literary. History, science, and philosophy had no place in the curriculum. China has inherited from the days of Confucius a marvelous old civilization of which the scholars were justly proud, but around which they kept a barrier which kept out all the knowledge acquired by men in later times. It was this very policy of jealously stifling the new learning that has put China in her present humiliating condition. This system was smashed...