“Even if the Heaven and Earth were destroyed, the Universal Reason would still be there.”

—  Lu Jiuyuan

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

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