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Approach To Life
IN what follows I am presenting the Chinese point
of view, because I cannot help myself. I am interested only in
presenting a view of life and of things as the best and wisest
Chinese minds have seen it and expressed it in their folk wisdom
and their literature. It is an idle philosophy born of an idle
life, evolved in a different age, I am quite aware. But I cannot
help feeling that this view of life is essentially true, and since
we alike under the skin, what touches the human heart in one
country touches all. I shall have to present a view of life as
Chinese poets and scholars evaluated it with their common sense,
their realism and their sense of poetry. I shall attempt to reveal
some of the beauty of the pagan world, a sense of the pathos and
beauty and terror and comedy of life, viewed by a people who have a
strong feeling of the limitations of our existence, and yet somehow
retain a sense of the dignity of human life.
译文：
人生研究
在这里，我所叙述的是中国人的观点，这是我的情不自禁。我只想叙述有关人生的观点，有关中国最优越最聪慧的哲人们所见到并在他们的民间智慧和文学里所表达出来的人生观和事物观。我清楚地认识到那是一种异于当今时代的闲适生活滋生出来的闲适哲学。但是我总觉得这种生活的观点是非常真实的。因为我们心性相同，一个国家能触及人民心灵的东西自然触及到其他国家的人民的心灵。我将叙述的人生观点是中国诗人和学者用他们的常识，他们的现实感和他们的诗所表现出来的。我将尝试去表现异教徒世界的一些美丽之处，表现一个对生活局限性强烈感知了的但依然保留对生活尊严的感知的民族他们之中的人生悲哀，美丽，恐惧和愉悦。
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