The New Life Movement is mis understood by the intelligentsia because it appears too simple but the tendency is to forget that it is intend ed for everybody—the farmer, the villager and the man in the street, well as the educated, the rich and the clever. "Education in China, both ancient and modern, has been elaborate process so! the New Lite Movement, in order to be universal, had, of necessity, to be as simple possible. After complete study and a Careful examination of the results achieved, scholars are now beginning to realize its value to the masses, ent begins Tt is being enforced from the top dows. There have been many other movements similar nature but they have invariably falled because the people who advocated reforms. themselves refused to make the necessary adjust ments. Therefore, It was considered necessary that the oMcials with Gen, Chiang der, should start the movement by setting a ple to teach the people to adapt themselves to new conditions before any ardent support for new polloi could be pected from the people, Gen, Chiang says, "We ought to reconstruct society with extraordinary means instead of merely sitting down and waiting for the process of natural evolution. It is a gigantic task for the New Lite Movement to wipe out the backward conditions of society by wild storm and to supply the community with vitality andthe. right spirit by a gentle breeze."
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