the allor of the "Nontn-Cuwa Datty. News."
Sm—I am afraid your correspond ent. Euros Is committing intellectual Suicide when he says: "Man's reason ing, for from ending him to. truth.
faking him, down deeper into the fog of error" Why argue at all tone shows. such a distrust. for. the ower of reason grant that faith—Brong faith—is needed In peeping into the mysteries of the" universe. Dut such faith must be supported by feason, not blind and dogmatic, The Christian Bible, the Buddhist Classis, the "Mohammedan Koran: all are claimed by their Fespeetive followers the product of the Master Mind. But" obviously. these. claims are mutually exclusive, To decide the Tiaht. oF wrong. of their respective claims, the Christians and. the Mohammedans sed to wave bloody wars, as if brutal force could be the nat judge In such malters, Credit must be given to the Buddhists for their persistent stand of pacifism. They may be guilty of dogmatism and fuperatition; but they are never" 0 blinded by impetuous enthusiasm as {o think that, whatever crimes may citi the name of thei religion.
Team neither a Buddhist nor a Christian in the strict sense of the word, 1 appreciate and-admire the liable spit of both religions without nding. It necessary. to accept the doubifut tradition of either, T too believe in the Inherent sinfulness of man. nat. because that tendency evil ig inherited from his "ancestors. but ecause he. has a life in the celernay past and in that past" sing have been committed by. hin The most persistent" and fun mental idea with man is hig belle!
eternity. Save Descartes: think therefore i am Ain therefore dead?"Do' not feel that there: had more when T'fo {0 sleep or become
been eternal time before t vias born and there will be eternal time after do? That idea of eternity "so sons that 1 am more convinced of ils truth than anything else: although my lite fon this earth. can Inst ority'' few. cores of years. 1 mus therefore say {hat above ait else Tam an eternal) being. Thad an eternal past before was born and T shall have an eternal {ature after'my prevent ite comes to 'AS an eternal being. T feel it uty 10 seek such eternal ideals truth, freedom and love, 'But Teannot help being hampered in Ulus search by the' organic desires of sell-preserva= tion "and. race prose "These forganie desires constitute. what. we call seltshness and where selfishness Rampers our allainment of -eternal ideals we have'sin, 1s only because we committed sine in" the pist life ihat "we were born into this Worl We need not, however. always per poluate our sing: if we live a pure, firm and wise life, subordinating on organic desires to the requirements fof the eternal (deals. the time. will come. when we shall' have so freed ourselves from the worldly. entangle-Monts' that we may. be entitled. to eternal life without binding ourselves in'an organic existence, 'The greatest tragedy with the world that man has forsaken all idea eternity' to hunt wildly atter what he alls social and' national interests Atler the dogmatism of the divine Hight. of. kings "we now have the equally worthless. dogmatism of the divine right of peoples. The conflict of the vival interests of hose. sel Styled divine peoples makes war evitable.
F.D.z Shanghai, May 24
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