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450 and the higher powers. Nevertheless, he yields to the modifications of existence and responds to the exigencies of environment. His arguments are inexhaustible, and never illogical. He is far-reaching, mysterious, and not to be fully explored.


 * It is impossible for a European critic to believe that Chuang Tzŭ penned the above paragraphs. See post, p. 454.

Hui Tzŭ was a man of many ideas. His works would fill five carts. But his doctrines are paradoxical, and his terms are used ambiguously.

He calls infinite greatness, beyond which there is nothing, the Greater One. He calls infinite smallness, within which there is nothing, the Lesser One.


 * Recognising two absolute extremes.

He says that that which is without dimensions measures a thousand li.


 * On the principle that mathematical points, though themselves without dimensions, collectively fill up space.

That heaven and earth are equally low. That mountain and marsh are equally level.


 * It depends upon the point of view.

That the sun at noon is the sun setting.


 * To people living farther east.

That when an animal is born, it dies.


 * As regards its previous state it dies when leaving it for a new state.

That the likeness of things partly unlike is called