Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang

"The Chinese as a nation are more philosophic [meaning here, easy-going] than efficient, and that if it were otherwise, no nation could have survived the high blood pressure of an efficient life for four thousand years."
The Importance of Living.

In previous posts* I have begun an attempt at comparison between art and science in the West and in China. I noted that China is the world's most continuously great civilization, that is it has never fallen into relative insignificance as have the Egyptian, Greek and Roman. Lin writes humorously as the above quote indicates, but also seriously, as the above quote indicates.

Maybe that is why the Chinese have remained continuously great.


*10-4-05, 9-27-05, 9-15-05, 9-5-05.
-Benjamin Harris