Note (return) — Chapter V · - CONFUCIANISM IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL FORM

"Four great stages of literary and national development may be pointed to as intervening (in the fifteen hundred years) between the great sage and the age called that of the Sung-Ju,"3 from the tenth to the fourteenth century, in which the Confucian system received its modern form. Each of them embraced the course of three or four centuries.