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" when a son is born, He is cradled in the bed, He is clothed in robes, Given a jade sceptre as a toy. His lusty cries portend his vigor, He shall wear bright, red knee caps, Shall be the lord of a hereditary house. When a daughter is born, She is cradled on the floor, She is clothed in swaddling bands, Given a loom whorf as toy, She shall wear no badges of honor, Shall only take care of food and drink, And not cause trouble to her parents" POEM TAKEN FROM CHINESE LITERATURE BOOKS OF SONGS.

Broadly speaking religious life may be divided into three periods. These may be described as the periods of ‘Faith’, ‘Thought’, and ‘Discovery.’ In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. This attitude may be of great consequence in the social and political history of a people, but is not of much consequence in so far as the individual’s inner growth and expansion are concerned. Perfect submission to discipline is followed by a rational understanding of the discipline and the ultimate source of its authority. In this period religious life seeks its foundation in a kind of metaphysics - a logically consistent view of the world with God as a part of that view. In the third period metaphysics is displaced by psychology, and religious life develops the ambition to come into direct contact with the Ulti