If the preceding chapter on the Chinese .请高手解答这是林语堂先生哪部作品

If the preceding chapter on the Chinese .请高手解答这是林语堂先生哪部作品
Translation One
If the preceding chapter on the Chinese character has any general conclusion,it is that of the supremacy of the human mind over material surroundings.Supremacy of the mind has more than one meaning.It means not only the application of human cunning to convert a world known to be full of pain and misery into a habitable place for human beings,but it implies also a certain contempt for mere physical courage and strength as such.Confucius long ago condemned the Jack Dempsey type of physical courage in his disciple Zi Lu,and I am sure he would have preferred a Gene Tunney who could be at home in circles of educated friends as well.Mencius,too,distinguished between mental labor and manual labor,and did not hesitate to put the former above the latter.For the Chinese had no nonsense about equality,and respect for the mental laborers or the educated class has been an outstanding characteristic of the Chinese civilization.
---- (Written by Lin Yutang)
Translation Two
Sufficient discussion of the characteristics of Chinese thinking has been made to enable us to appreciate the cause of their failure to develop natural science.The Greeks laid the foundation of natural science because the Greek mind was essentially an analytical mind,a fact which is proved by the striking modernity of Aristotle.The Egyptians developed geometry and astronomy,sciences which required an analytical mind; and the Hindus developed a grammar of their own.The Chinese,with all their native intelligence,never developed a science of grammar,and their mathematics and astronomical knowledge have largely been imported.For the Chinese mind delights only in moral platitudes,and their abstract terms like “benevolence”,“kindliness”,“propriety” and “loyalty” are so general that in such discussions they are naturally lost in vague generalities.
---- (Written by Lin Yutang)