Note 931 — Chapter XIV · THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE (B) THE MACHINE
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
The Chinese Culture, too, made almost all these European discoveries on its own account—including compass, telescope, printing, gunpowder, paper, porcelain—but the Chinese did not wrest, but wheedled, things out of Nature. No doubt he felt the advantages of his knowledge and turned it to account, but he did not hurl himself upon it to exploit it.