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The finest minds of the Orient have loved abstract thinking, as the finest minds of the Occident have abhorred it. We in the practical West are not easily tempted to desert the tangibility of this world of bricks and timber for the airiness of the world of pure thought.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 230