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Going back again to early man, we see that the Chinese remained very close to nature. They were ever conscious of things being part of a system in a web of relationships. They had no hesitation in relating what they saw in nature to their own situation. Studying the movements of animals, he had no trouble relating their movements to his own. He was aware of the differences between man and animal but he was able to obtain from animal movements certain valuable features. By study and practice he was able to adapt these features to his own needs and improve upon them. He remained, throughout, ever conscious of a prevading system of forces, the wholeness and universal relatedness of things.

This has its importance when we contrast it to western relish for isolating problem and solution from its total circumstances under the urgency for a solution. The westerner sees exercise as exercise, dance as dance and emotion as something just emotional. He is predisposed to seeing things as units or as a collection of separate units. He is goal oriented and he prefers simplified solutions. Even for his own garden, he is more likely to construct his walkway in a straight path than to let it meander around brook and stone. He is satisfied if "it works", and in mathematics, he honors a simple solution with the term "elegant".