The social and ethical teachings of Brahmanism, Buddhism and Confucianism
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[INTRODUCTORY] Nothing is clearer to the mind of a person who undertakes
a study of the social customs and teachings of any people
than the fact that the sources of their social institutions are
embedded In their religious conceptions, as the roots of an oak
are embedded In the soil which gives It nourishment. This la
especially true of the races of the orient, for the eastern mine
has never yet drawn the distinction between things secular and
things religious that to a certain degree now prevails among
western peoples. No sooner does one begin the study of their
beliefs concerning the relations of man to man than he finds
himself engulfed in their doctrines of God, of prayer—man’s relation
to God,—of the soul and the future life, as well as their
theories regarding the universe.
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