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The sayings of Krishna to Arjuna possess a worth even for the modern young man, did he but understand them aright. Lao Tzu, the king of the Chinese philosophers and the philosopher of Chinese kings, developed a teaching for all time; but alas we are too stuffed with intellectual conceit to listen. Egypt has left a marvellous memory, in the gigantic monuments which are strewn about the land of the Nile, but her understanding of after-death mysteries is not yet ours.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 103