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Essay / Analysis of Mencius and Aquinas - 894
Although these two ideologies seem completely irrelevant, Yearley relates them to a characteristic that both religions possess: they both emphasize the relationship between life people's daily lives and sacred beliefs. In his journal, Yearley asserts that heaven and the mortal human world are substantially related. Divinity does not contradict or break the worldly living environment, but complements it and vice versa. In other words, human virtues are accompanied by religious virtues. Believing in a particular religion does not replace people's original daily life, but greatly improves