Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . unlessmoral precepts be rested on belief in Him, ay, and, let me add, on what He hastold us about Himself and His will, they will not really control conduct and life inthe long run. A society which is losing or which has lost those masculine beliefs,those energetic, soul-controlling convictions, which purify and invigorate the heartand will, cannot recover its vital forces by a talismanic repetition of beautiful moralsentiments or by a picturesque delineation of their practical effect. — Liddon, Essays and Addre
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . unlessmoral precepts be rested on belief in Him, ay, and, let me add, on what He hastold us about Himself and His will, they will not really control conduct and life inthe long run. A society which is losing or which has lost those masculine beliefs,those energetic, soul-controlling convictions, which purify and invigorate the heartand will, cannot recover its vital forces by a talismanic repetition of beautiful moralsentiments or by a picturesque delineation of their practical effect. — Liddon, Essays and Addresses, pp. 58, 59. 2 Martin, The Chinese: Their Education, Philosophy, and Letters, pp. 132,133. For an elaborate exposition of Confucian ethics, consult the article from whichthe above quotation is taken, entitled Remarks on the Ethical Philosophy of theChinese, ibid., pp. 125-149. The same essay is published in Hanlin Papers,First Series, pp. 163-193, and in the volume of The Princeton Review for 1862. 3 Sup-a, pp. 72,89-91, 119-125, I3I-I33. 157. 241-251, 331-333, 387-389-. CHRISTIANITY THE SOCIAI HOTE OF THE NATIONS 443 philosophical and polytheism as a practical basis, and from an ethicalpoint of view the difference is slight. Over against the Buddhist nega-tion of the soul as a distinct and permanent entitywe have the pantheistic conception of a temporary, . r 111 The ethics of Hinduism. separate existence as part of a great whole, to bein time absorbed again into the original substancefrom which it came. In place of the distinctively spiritual and ethicaltone of original Buddhism we find a materialistic element and a ten-dency to nature-worship which place Hinduism on a lower level andgive it a grosser trend. The religious feelings of the early Hindu seem to a remarkable de-gree to have been impressed with the phenomena of the material uni-verse. Light, fire, the wonders and terrors of nature, the reproductivepowers, and even bodily stimulants and intoxicants, became ob
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