Peter Bi -
    Thank you for pointing out that scoience and math (Western) had been
introduced into China earlier than opium although the latter had been used
there for centuries as a medicine, and science is only now enjoying the same
popularity.
    Leibniz was very interested in Chinese things especially the hexagrams
of the I Ching in which he saw a relation to his binary arithmatic. Actually
this was suggested to him by Bouvet when Leibniz explained his calculus by 1
and 0 in which he even saw the metaphysical possibility to illustrate the
relation between "God and nothingness". This of course anticipates Booles'
mathematical logic and the language of the computer, a binary calculus
machine which has infinite possibilities between "God and nothingness" which
is to say that it occupies the same place as its creator, man, i.e. nowhere
at all but everywhere at once.
    But this new zero identity shouldn't give rise to a new cause for any
diffidence which might falter. "To do" is still better than not doing esp.
if the effect is intended to lift the spirits and reputation of one on whose
door we may knock, one who deserves praise and honor after taken a beating
from the dumb forces of society's well-organized and hegemonic
culture-destroying materalists.

    "If deeds be not ensheaved and garnered in the heart
    there is inanition."  Canto LXXXIII

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