Introduction (1)

Introduction (1)

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I should like to give a warm welcome to this book by Robert temple. it is, in its own way, a brilliant distillation of my Science and Civilisation in China, published by the Cambridge university press, a work which will be complete in some twenty-five volumes and of which fifteen have now appeared or are passing through the press.
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