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Instead of thinking of the terms East and West as opposites, we would do better to think of them as they recently were--that is, medieval and modern. For in the pre-Renaissance and pre-scientific eras we Westerners were not much different from the Easterners; indeed, the similarities are startling in covering so many small details. But the East is rapidly changing. It is moving along the same path which we took, only with the advantage of our own finished development to guide it, to warn it, and to quicken it.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 278