Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "It is not absurd for discerning Europeans . . . to see something today which is …"

It is not absurd for discerning Europeans . . . to see something today which is not adequately known by the Chinese erudites, and to be able to interpret their ancient books better than the erudites themselves.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern · Calculus, optimism

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Writings on China (cited in a ResearchGate article)

Date: Undated, likely late 17th or early 18th century

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