"Their fundamental mistake was not the belief that the State should be organised according to natural laws, but rather the conviction that these laws could be ascertained by the study of human tradition and history alone."
"In so far, then, as natural law came to be overwhelmingly dominant in China, and positive law reduced to the minimum, one would expect that so different a balance might have had important effects on the development of the formulation of the regularities of Nature in the natural sciences. The weaker "
"(page 238)... we have the essence of the half-scientific, half-political doctrine with which the Naturalists were able to frighten the feudal lords."