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In the general survey of Chinese art and Chinese life, the conviction must have been forced upon us that the
Chinese are past masters in the art of living. There is a certain whole-hearted concentration on the material life, a
certain zest in living, which is mellower, perhaps deeper, just as intense as in the West. In China the spiritual values
have not been separated from the material values, but rather help man in a keener enjoyment of life as it falls to
our 10 .
This accounts for our joviality and our incorrigible humor. A 11 can have a special devotion to the life of
the present and envelop both spiritual and material values in one outlook, which is difficult for a Christian to imagine.
We live the life of the senses and the life of the spirit at the same moment, and see no necessary conflict, for the
human spirit is used to beautify life, to 12 its essence, perhaps to help it overcome what ugliness and pain are in
the world. But the human spirit is never used to escape from life and find its meaning in a life hereafter.
In reply to a question by a disciple on death, Confucius once said: Don’t know life, how know death? In so
saying, he expressed there a 13 bourgeois, unmetaphysical and practical attitude toward the problems of life
and knowledge which has characterized our national life and thinking. 【題組】13 (A)somewhere (B)someone (C)somewhat (D)sometimes