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It traces a generational shift from fathers who pushed modernization in education and government to youth shaped by contradictory teachings from science, Christianity, atheism, and communism. 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from human nature.Ifwhat is regarded as truth departs from humannature,it may not be regarded as truth.  \n—CoNFUCIUS  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nONE of the most important movements in China to-day is thediscovery of their own country by young Chinese intellectuals.A generation ago the most progressive of their fathers werebeginning to feel a stirring discontent with their own country.They were conscious,indeed the consciousness was forcedupon them,that China as she had been in the past was not ableto meet the dangerous and aggressive modernity of the West.I do not mean the political modernity so much as the marchof economic,educational and military events.These Chinesefathers,fathers of the present generation in China,were thereal revolutionists.They forced out of existence the old dynasticrule,they changed with incredible speed the system of educa-tion,with indefatigable zeal they planned and set up a schemeof modern government.No ancient government under anemperor ever accomplished with more imperial speed suchtremendous changes in so great a country.  \nIn this atmosphere of change,the present intellectual youthof China has grown up.Where the fathers imbibed the doctrineof Confucius and learned the classics and revolted againstthem,these young people have been battered by many forcesof the new times.They have been taught something of science,something of Christianity,something of atheism,something offree love,something of communism,something of Westernphilosophy,something of modern militarism,something,infact,of everything.In the midst of the sturdy medievalism ofthe masses of their countrymen the young intellectuals havebeen taught the most extreme of every culture.Intellectuallythey have been forced to the same great omissions that Chinahas made physically.They have skipped,figuratively speaking,from the period of the unimproved country road to the aero-plane era.The omission was too great.The mind could notcompensate for it.The spirit was lost in the conflict.  \nThe first result,therefore,of the hiatus was undoubtedly to  \nINTRODUCTION  \nproduce a class of young Chinese,both men and women,butchiefly men,who frankly did not know how to live in their owncountry or in the age in which their country still was.Theywere for the most part educated abroad,where they forgot therealities of their own race.It was easy enough for variousrevolutionary leaders to persuade these alienated minds thatChina's so-called backwardness was due primarily to politicaland material interference by foreign powers.The world wasmade the scapegoat for China's medievalism.Instead ofrealizing that China was in her own way making her ownsteps,slowly,it is true,and somewhat ponderously,towardmodernity,it was easy hue and cry to say that if it had notbeen for foreigners she would have been already on an equality,in material terms,with other nations.  \nThe result of this was a fresh revolution of a sort.Chinapractically rid herself of her two great grievances outside ofJapan,extraterritoriality and the tariff.No great visiblechange appeared as a consequence.It became apparent thatwhat had been weaknesses were still weaknesses,and thatthese were inherent in the ideology of the people.It was found,for instance,that when a revolutionary leader became secureand entrenched he became conservative and as corrupt,toooften,as an old style official.The same has been true in otherhistories.There were too many honest and intelligent youngminds in China not to observe and accept the truth,that theoutside world had very little to do with China's condition,andwhat she had to do with it could have been prevented if Chinahad been earlier lesssluggish and herleadersless blind and selfish.  \nThen followed a period of despair and frenzy and increasedidealistic worship of the West.The evident prosperity offoreign countries was f","cbCairIUuJppMd5K","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairIUuJppMd5K","pdf",28529918,392,"English","# Introduction\n## Discovery of China by young 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