BRITON AND CHINESE.
" There are many points of similarity between the English and the Chinese in their modes of thinking, and even in their modes of speech. Both peoples have a profound distrust of logfc and are extremely suspieious of arguments that are too perfect. We believe that when an argument is too logieal it cannot be true. And both countries are gifted more at doing the right things than at giving happy reasons for doing them. All Englishmen love a good liar, and so do the Chinese. We love to call a thing by anytliing except its right name. Of course, there are many points of dissimilarity (the Chinese are more emotional, for instance), and the Chinese and English sometimes exasperate each other, but I am digging at the roots of our racial make-up."— Dr. Lin Yu-Tang, in m address before the, ffl-Pqoigff Aggocj&tion at Shanghui.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 4
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