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STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA (5)
British, would probably refuse to accept. However, in these wonderful days of democracy, unless we possess in efficient and unrepresentative parliaments, we are oblete and therefore inferior.
Among the [ ]e important of social concepts, we may point out individualism and familism. In the West the individual constitutes the social unit while in the East the family takes its place. Here seems to exist another apparent gulf. But now in the East individualism is recognized to much larger a degree so as to obviate the traditional life line of demarcation between the social concepts of the West and the East.
41 * (+) In ethical theories we note that so far as this general conception of right and wrong is concerned, we fail to see the fundamental difference. An ethical man in the West is an ethical man in the East. In China he is called a Kun[ ], in Japan a Kunshi, now changed to [ ] and, a gentelman in England. A man thus characterized possesses qualities that make him a gentleman whether in China, in Japan or in England
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA (5)
In economics we talk about high and low standards of living. A Westerner because of physical-make has a superior capacity for consuming more and, of course, he pays more. But because he eats more and pays more [ ] does not make him a superior economic man. The prevailing conception of the standard of living requires a thorough scientific moralization before we can [ ] speak more intelligently about it. Only it should be observed that this idea is closely bound with the philosophy of materialism. (+)
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY (6) STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
In religions we find that Christ [ ]taught that we are all children of God and that we must love each other. Gotama the founder of Buddhism taught that that we must struggle to attain the communion of the cosmic soul - compassion being its fundamental ethical teaching and while Confucious declared that four seas are brothers such are the fundamental teaching of the founders of the three great existing religions Systems.
If [ ] these the facts exposed in this brief survey are true, it is difficult to find the fundamental contact conflict between the essential factors that really govern racial expressions. It is still more difficult to find facts to substantiate racial superiority - except within domains of material things. Here, of course, the white races dominate. But Material prosperity - [ ] is not the final criterion of superiority. of [ ] for for spiritual satisfaction perfection may be obtained quite apart from material things. If, therefore, the West is interested in materialism and the East in spiritualism, is that a thing which should be looked upon as a mark of superiority -- or [ ] inferiority
