Lu Jiuyuan , or Lu Xiangshan , was a Chinese philosopher and writer who founded the school of the universal mind, the second most influential Neo-Confucian school. He was a contemporary and the main rival of Zhu Xi.
In East Asia and the Western World, he is known by his honorific name rather than his private name.
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“Even if the Heaven and Earth were destroyed, the Universal Reason would still be there.”
As quoted in Lin Yutang's From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 107, and in George E. G. Catlin's Rabindranath Tagore (1964), p. 17
