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Confucianism (n.) stood to Taoism as scholasticism, reading only the Bible, Aristotle and Aquinas, stood to science reading the book of nature.
Mysticism (n.) sides with empiricism against scholasticism: both trust the nonlinear world of experience over the linear world of letters.
Science (n.) in China owed more to the Taoists than the Confucians: one school watched animals, wind and water, the other kept its nose in books of rules.
Taoism (n.) was no romantic primitivism: the artifice it opposed was a feudal order whose laws shielded exploitation and whose technology made weapons.