The Archive · 1935

Paradox—Mental Gymnastics

"tu his witings Mo Ti was the first_among Chinese Philosopher" to develop, a Joglcal " sequence of thought." said' the speaker. "Before him books were successions of para-

Like all his predecessors Hsuntzu ought a basis for effective govern ments a5 we are doing to-day. Vague political notions of earlier thingers were now erystalized by him and he approved of stern laws as advocated by the school of jurists egalisis that flourished at the time. However, the stern legalist attitude has never unreservedly been adopted in Chirese thought as in the West which in result adds a concept to our Western law in that: "In the West we punish vice; in China they do more, they reward virtue."

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