The Archive · 1936

Cramping Parochialism

'Thus Confucius throughout his lite saw China dismembered and her people bound down to a cramping parol chialism and oppressed by petty tyrannies. With a view to preventing, the recurrence of the civil wars, ho exhorted the kings to observe' his doctrines of righteousness and bene-valence in their dealings with one another. With all the courage of his moral being he would denounce oF hinder their use of armed force which too often disrupted their peaceful relations, "He cherished as one of his! political objects the restoration the central authority, and indeed he raised this ideal even to the point of making it a principle of legitimacy.

order to check the moral degeneration which was widespread in his time, Confucius fell back upon. the one effectual means—the rehabilitaton of the cultural possessions of the }for the difficulty with which the radio confronts the churches. It may not be possible again to get mankind to go to church, except! when it needs its offices on occasions of importance during its life. The problem is rendered all the more] dificult by broadcasting. To retrain from broadcasting services would not bring men back to public worship, Radio can be used to take the church to the man, but it will only be done by imitating the technique of the laity in more secular matters, providing of the best even when it comes to preaching.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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