But, apart from these special tendencies in Christianity, it cannot be doubted that all Christian experience recognizes the positive truth of Buddhism in regarding the human soul as a substantial, finite, but progressive monad, not to be absorbed, as in Brahmanism, in the abyss of absolute being.
The positive side of the system of Confucius is the organization of the state on the basis of the family.

The government of the emperor is paternal government, the obedience of the subject is filial obedience.
Now, though Jesus did not for the first time call God "the Father," he first brought men into a truly filial relation to God.

The Roman Church is organized on the family idea.

The word "Pope" means the "Father"; he is the father of the whole Church.

Every bishop and every priest is also the father of a smaller family, and all those born into the Church are its children, as all born into a family are born sons and daughters of the family.