《信仰印度化是中国之大不幸—胡适先生论佛教》：
我一直认为佛教在全中国“自东汉到北宋”千年的传播，对中国的国民生活是有害无益，而且为害至深且巨。
关于这种不幸, 可证明的方式实在太多了, 这里我不想深入讨论. 我只是坦白的承认, 我的任务之一, 便是这种”耙粪工作” (muckraking)(把这种中国文化里的垃圾耙出来)罢了. 我是有我的破坏工作好做的.
《印度吾师》
China has never been able fully to repay this cultural indebtedness. China could only indirectly repay this debt by helping to spread this Indian culture to her Asiatic neighbors and by preserving in translation India’s vast store of religious, philosophical, and historical literature, the originals of which have mostly been lost in India herself.
India, our great teacher, was then not in a mood to receive much from China.
