"We need to understand a great deal more about the major religious emphases in China and India. In China, for example, to select three of the major words in its religious vocabulary: hsiao, ho, jen; the first lays emphasis on the filial relationship; the second, on spiritual harmony; the third, on what we may call for lack of a better term, humanity. The Chinese character jen, humanity, is that of a man beside two horizontal strokes, the upper representing heaven and the lower our earthly existence. Humanity is the thing that links the eternal with the temporal."
— Edward H. Hume
Source: Facing the Future of the Missionary Movement, preliminary paper for the Second General Session of the Institute of Pacific Relations (Honolulu, 1927)
Universe, Unity, Yin and Yang, Holy Spirit, Soul
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