SOURCE: Das, Taraknath. “Dr. Lin's New Treasure Chest.” Saturday Review of Literature 25, no. 52 (26 December 1942): 5.

In the following review, Das discusses how The Wisdom of China and India is helpful in understanding the “spirit governing the life of the vast majority of the peoples of the Orient.”

Most of the political leaders and educators of the East, especially those of India and China, have a clear conception of the spirit of the West, because they are well acquainted with the contents of Western culture—history, literature, philosophy, political institutions, etc.—as students in Eastern and Western universities. The majority of the people of America, including political leaders and teachers, know very little about oriental culture. What little they know is often a distorted version of the teachings of so-called experts on oriental affairs and missionaries who are generally incapable of making the right appraisal of things oriental because they...