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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