Note (return) — Chapter V · - CONFUCIANISM IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL FORM
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Chu Hi and his Japanese successors, especially Kyū-so, argue finely and discourse volubly about Ki16 or spirit; but it is not Spirit, or spiritual in the sense of Him who taught even a woman at the well-curb at Sychar. It is in the air. It is in the earth, the trees, the flowers. It comes to consciousness in man. His Ri is the Tao of Lao Tsze, the Way, Reason, Law. It is formless, invisible.