I'll accept your
Confucianism. I've not the slightest objection to finding China
nearer salvation than any other land. Do but turn it round so that
it looks to the future and not to the past, and it will be the best
social and political culture in the world. That, indeed, is what is
happening. Mix Chinese culture with American enterprise and you
will have made a new lead for mankind."
From that Benham drove on to discoveries. "When a man thinks of the
past he concentrates on self; when he thinks of the future he
radiates from self. Call me a neo-Confucian; with the cone opening
forward away from me, instead of focussing on me. . . ."
"You make me think of an extinguisher," said Prothero.
"You know I am thinking of a focus," said Benham. "But all your
thought now has become caricature. . . . You have stopped thinking.
You are fighting after making up your mind. . . ."
Prothero was a little disconcerted by Benham's prompt endorsement of
his Chinese identification. He had hoped it would be exasperating.
He tried to barb his offence.
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