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...refurbish. Essentially, Confucianism teaches that human nature is good,* that harmony among men is the goal of life, that rulers rule by example and exhortations to virtue. However, the Confucian system assumes that government shall rest in the hands of scholars and of gentle and honorable men-the chiin-tzu. The benevolent paternalism of the chiin-tzu ideal (still reflected in China's 36-year Kuomintang "tutelage" and in much of the new Constitution) is not popular government as the West understands it. To many a Western-trained ear Chen often seems to be asking for an indefinitely continued...
...concept of the chiin-tzu-the good man ruling by superior talents and morality-is not unknown in other times and places. When the Scranton anthracite fields were locked in the great strike of 1902, a spokesman for the operators wrote: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for-not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God has given control of the property rights of the country. . . ." Such remnants of U.S. Confucianism, however, have gone underground...
...acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha boys with God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen...
...selected for him when he was 14, and subsequently disregarded. No. 2 was a professor's daughter, devoted Yang Kai-hui, mother of Mao's Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation, ex-Wife Ho went to Moscow...
Novelist Huxley's book, reflecting a growing, uneasy sense of the inadequacy of a purely rationalistic approach to God, included excerpts from many unfamiliar European mystics and religious thinkers (Francis of Sales, St. Teresa, Eckhart, Boehme), even more unfamiliar Asiatics (Jalaluddin Rumi, Visvanatha, Chuang Tzu...