"Even if the Heaven and Earth were destroyed, the Universal Reason would still be there."
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As quoted in Lin Yutang's From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 107, and in George E. G. Catlin's Rabindranath Tagore (1964), p. 17
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Lu Jiuyuan
1139 – 1192
Lu Jiuyuan (Chinese: 陸九淵; pinyin: Lù Jiǔyuān; 1139–1192), or Lu Xiangshan (陸象山; Lù Xiàngshān), was a Chinese scholar and philosopher who founded the school of the universal mind, the second most influential Neo-Confucian school.
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