ভবিষ্যতের বাঙালী &Ե- চীন দেশের বিখ্যাত সাহিত্যিক লিং ইয়েন টাং (Lin Yen Tang) vši vai cīt, vai īff” (My Country, My People) শীর্ষক মূল্যবান গ্রন্থে লিখেছেন :- "Nothing is more striking than the Chinese humanist devotion to the true end of life as they conceive it, and the complete ignoring of all theological and metaphysical phantasies extraneous to it. When our great humanist Confucius was asked about the important question of death, his famous reply was, "Don't know life-how know death ?" An American Presbyterian minister , once tried to drive home to me the importance of the question of immortality by referring to the alleged astronomical rheory that the sun is gradually losing its energy and that perhaps, after millions of years, life is sure to become extinct on this planet. "Do you realise, therefore," asked the minister "that after all, the question of immortality is important ?" I told him frankly "I was unperturbed..................Christianity as a way of life can impress the Chinese, but thristian creeds and dogmas will be crushed, not by superior Confucian logic, but by ordinary Confucian common sense. Buddhism itself, when absorbed by the educated Chinese, became nothing but a system of mental hygiene, which is the essence of Sung philosophy, "For certain hard-headedness characterises the Chinese ideal (f life. There may be imagination in Chinese painting and poetry, but there is no imagination in Chinese ethics. Even in painting and poetry there is sheer, whole-hearted, instinctive delight in common-place life, and imagination is used to throw a veil of charm and beauty over the earthly life, rather than to escape from it. There is no doubt that the Chinese are in love with life, in love with this earth, and will not forsake it for an invisible heaven, They are in love with life, which is so sad and yet so beautiful, and in which moments of happiness are so precious because they are so transient. They are in love with life, with its kings and beggars, robber and monks, funerals and weddings and
