SOURCE: An introduction to The Wisdom of China and India, Random House, 1942, pp. 3-52.
In the following excerpt, Yutang outlines the basic tenets of Confucianism, which he describes as a system of ideas that sought a rationalized social and political order "by laying the basis for it in a moral order. "
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