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Which leads us to the really interesting point - almost universally overlooked by Western scholars, with a few honourable exceptions, like Cambridge's Peter Nolan: Mao's analytic/synthetic philosophy is China's genuine secret weapon, although much neglected even in China today.

On looking back over the six-and-thirty years which I have passed since the Synthetic Philosophy was commenced, I am surprised at my audacity in undertaking it, and still more surprised by its completion.

From these last two Essays came the inception of the Synthetic Philosophy.

Francisco, 222.Synthetic philosophy, 182.—— abstract of the, 195, 199.—— first draft of, 199.

The record of these facts is of some moment as evidencing that the scheme of the Synthetic Philosophy took definite shape in 1857.