The Spirit of Chinese Philanthropy: A Study in Mutual Aid, מהדורות 125-126

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Columbia University, 1912 - 122 עמודים
Describes Chinese Philanthropy in thought and practice, and interprets its characteristics and ideas.
 

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עמוד 13 - When I say that all men have a mind which cannot bear to see the sufferings of others, my meaning may be illustrated thus: even nowadays, if men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they will without exception experience a feeling of alarm and distress. They will feel so, not as a ground on which they may gain the...
עמוד 13 - Men differ from one another in regard to them ; — some as much again as others, some five times as much, and some to an incalculable amount: — it is because they cannot carry out fully their natural powers.
עמוד 15 - It is not owing to me ; it is owing to the year." In what does this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying...
עמוד 112 - The central government of China, so far as a system of this nature is recognized in the existing institutions, is arranged with the object rather of registering and checking the action of the various provincial administrations, than with that of assuming a direct initiative in the conduct of affairs.
עמוד 17 - Sir, if you would cause the empire not to lose its source of nourishment, — there is the universe, its regularity is unceasing ; there are the sun and moon, their brightness is unceasing; there are the stars, their groupings never change ; there are birds and beasts, they flock together without varying ; there are trees and shrubs, they grow upwards without exception. Be like these ; follow TAO ; and you will be perfect. Why then these vain struggles after charity and duty to one's neighbour, as...
עמוד 35 - Chinese, both rich and poor ? There are no outdoor games in China, or, indeed, any games except in a gambling sense. Absolute dullness and dreariness seem to prevail everywhere. As these two demons drive the Caucasian to drink, so they drive the Chinese to opium.
עמוד 13 - They will feel so, not as a ground on which they may gain the favour of the child's parents, nor as a ground on which they may seek the praise of their neighbours and friends, nor from a dislike to the reputation of having been unmoved by such a thing.
עמוד 51 - ... in which the rice has been cleaned, and ask them to wash with it ; if their feet be dirty, they should prepare hot water, and ask them to wash them with it. Elders in serving their youngers, and the low in serving the noble, should all observe these rules. 12. The men should not speak of what belongs to the inside (of the house), nor the women of what belongs to the outside. Except at sacrifices and funeral rites, they should not hand vessels to one another. In all other cases when they have...
עמוד 32 - ... luxuries that appeal to the palate is too slight, the call for sustaining food is too imperious, to withdraw much land from its main business, which is to grow rice and beans and wheat and garlic to keep the people alive. To win new plots for tillage, human sweat has been poured out like water.
עמוד 17 - cried Lao Tzu. " Does not universal love contradict itself ? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self ? Sir, if you would cause the empire not to lose its source of nourishment, there is the universe, its regularity is unceasing ; there...

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