Lu Xun Quotes
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
Lu, Xun. Selected Works. Translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, Foreign Languages Press, 1980.
Most major new scientific findings are conceptually different from what the current generation of scientists have learned and been used to. It takes some time for reflection and the death of the most recalcitrant scientists. For the new generation of scientists there is no problem. Today, even college students have little trouble thinking in the framework of Einstein’s Relativity, while that was a huge problem for most when Einstein fist published at the beginning of the 20th century.
Actually, many religions have had relatively sudden flip flops or changes in doctrine. Most of these make it easier for the religion to function in the then modern world. The abandonment of plural marriages by the Mormons, and the abandonment of the requirement of circumcision by the early Christians are but two examples. Being religions they do not ascribe the reason for change as refutation of scientific evidence, but in both of these cases, the new doctrine solved very real existing problems the religion was facing.
Lu Xun (or Lu Sun, Wade–Giles romanisation: Lu Hsün) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In the 1930s, he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.
