emancipating thought.” He calls in the testimony of Kenneth 
Scott Latourette, who writes in The Chinese, Their History and  
Culture  (p. 310):

     The hypothetical visitor from Mars might well have 
     expected the Industrial Revolution and the modern 
     scientific approach to have made their first appearance in 
     China rather than the Occident. The Chinese are so 
     industrious, and have shown such ingenuity in invention 
     and by empirical processes have forestalled the West in 
     arriving at so much useful agricultural and medical lore 
     that they, rather than the nations of the West, might 
     have been looked to as the forerunners and leaders in 
     what is termed the scientific approach towards the 
     understanding and mastery of man’s natural 
     environment. It is little short of amazing that a people