and dullness and accent is coupled with extraordinary perception regards the nice distinctions of sounds of European consonants, vowels and diphthongs. You know better than I do how to take advantage of Chinese abilities with regard to the former, but I plead with you for more patience with your boys in the matter of their national disabilities regards the latter point. Beware of (5) Again, Chinese boys who are all singularly deficient in the matter of emotion and applying a European standard to the treatment of Chinese and develop their sense of feeling, have good form generally of aesthetic feeling which you rarely find in European children. There is inborn in Chinese boys a refined sensibility to the impressions of colour in their dress, and their delicate perception of what is pretty and graceful in ceremonies and etiquette.
It is for you to take advantage of this aesthetic feeling which in the case of the whole Chinese nation forms the essential basis of both religion and morality. They have no religious feeling, and general sentiment such as European children possess as their Christian birthright. Their religion is all reverence, their morality is all etiquette, and both religion and morality spring with them, not from an inborn sense of right and wrong, but from an aesthetic feeling of propriety and good form. I leave it to you to draw the inferences implied.
Page 120
Page 121
¿
an
dullness
and accent is coupled with
extra ordinary perception regards the nice distinctions of sands of European consonants, vowels and diphthongs. You know better than I do how to take advantage of Chinese. abilities with regard to the former, but I plead with you for
more patience with your boys in the matter of their national disabilities
regards the latter point. Beware of (5) Again, Chinese boys who are all singularly deficient in the matter emotion and
as r
of
applying rice a European standard of to the treatm
of Chinese be and develop their sense
feeling, have good form
generally of aesthetic feeling which you rarely find in European
a certain amait
children. There is inborn
in Chinese boys a refined
sensibility
119
sensibility to the impressions
of colour in their dress, and their delicate perception of what is pretty and graceful
in ritis ceremonies and etiquette
in the case
It is for you to take advantage of this aesthetic feeling which of the whole Chimere nation forms the essential basis of both
of both religion o morality. They have no religious feeling,
and
gromaral
sentiment such as
Kun
yo European children possess as their Christian birth
right. Their religion is all reverence, their morality: is all etiquette, and both religion and morality spring with them, not from an inborn aesthetic feeling of propriety
good form. I leave it to: to draw the inferences
and
you
implied
Page 120Page 121
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.