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On a totally unrelated side note. These days I often find myself thinking of the following quote by the early 20th century Chinese scholar Yan Fu from his "Letter to the proprietors of Waijiao bao concerning education" (與外交報主人論教育書). I think it is because it reminds me of the importance of democracy, rule of law and free knowledge from a perspective that is outside of a Western point of view:"Those who today praise Westerners say they are just good at calculations; they say they are just adept at mechanics and technique. They do not know that what today we and hear about - things like pneumatic motors and military weapons - are all just coarse material traces; the greatest flowering of so-called astronomy and physics is also just a scant mark of their abilities; it is not what is really within their veins. What runs within their veins? To speak in general terms, it is nothing other than methods of learning (xueshu) that filter out the bad and elevates the good; and a legal and political system (xingzheng) that suppresses selfishness so as to advance the public good."

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