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All this happened a very long time ago. Life moves on. Humanity is concerned, urgently and forcibly, with the present. It must ask, "What contribution can a country make today?"--not, "What contribution did it make 5,000 years ago?" The answer will hardly be a satisfactory one.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 253