Warmest appreciation is extended to Msgr. S. Lokuang, to Profs. Andrew Tsien and Bernard Lee, and to the authors and editors of this study whose generous support made possible the organization and realization of the study which this volume reflects.

Acknowledgement is made also to Penguin Books for permission to quote from the D.C. Lau edition of "The Analects" of Confucius; to The University of Hong Kong Press for permission to quote from the "Chung-yung" as found in James Legge, The Doctrine of the Mean ("Chinese Classics," 1960); to McCutchan Publishing Corp., Berkeley, CA, and to The International Philosophical Quarterly for permission to quote from Julia Ching, "The Problem of God in Confucianism" (1977).

Deep appreciation is extended as well to Mrs. B. Kennedy who prepared the manuscript and to the James A. McLeans for their support in this extension of the research project on The Foundations of Moral Education and Character Development.