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The rising generation, he said, is destined to see in coming years a religious advance greater than ever before. Momentous questions are to be decided, as, for instance, that which confronts us in regard to those Oriental countries whose ignorant millions are dependent upon us. We seek an open door...
A lecture under the auspices of the Anthropological Society will be given at 8 o'clock this evening in the Fogg Lecture Room by Dr. James H. Woods, on "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India." Dr. Woods, who is a member of the department of philosophy, is now editing the...
The population of the Phillippines consists mostly of strangely diversified Malay races. The Phillippine language has twelve main dialects, with only one hundred words in common. There is absolutely no literature, and ninety per cent of the people neither read nor write. The people have no national consciousness, although racial...
Western civilization is built on economic principles--Oriental civilization on morals. The basis of Burmese society, which has not the slightest connection with that of India, is Buddhism, some conception of which we must have to explain the character and institutions of Burma.
Though a study of the Burmese suggests many ideals, which we of the West have dreamed of, but failed to realize, the point of view which we should strive to attain is neither Occidental nor Oriental, but should combine the best in both, and be higher than either.