中国人的精神4.13
方疏桐
Now the difference between the really educated person and the half educated one is this.The really educated person wants to read books which will tell him the real truth about a thing, whereas the half educated person prefers to read books which will tell him what he wants the thing to be, what his vanity prompts him to wish that the thing should be.John Smith in China wants very much to be a superior person to the Chinaman and the Rev.Arthur Smith writes a book to prove conclusively that he, John Smith, is a very much superior person to the Chinaman.There—fore, the Rev.Arthur Smith is a person very dear to John Smith, and the “Chinese Characteristics” become a Bible to John Smith.
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