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over-all awareness of forms suggests to him that we would do
well to stand aside from most of them. He points out that
technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of
thought and valuation, citing with approval the outlook of the
Chinese sage:
As Tzu-Gung was travelling through the regions
north of the river Han, he saw an old man working in his
vegetable garden. He had dug an irrigation ditch. The man
would descend into a well, fetch up a vessel of water in
his arms and pour it out into the ditch. While his efforts
were tremendous the results appeared to be very meagre.
Tzu-Gung said, “There is a way whereby you can
irrigate a hundred ditches in one day, and whereby you
can do much with little effort. Would you not like to hear
of it?”