Al-Risala (English) · Retiring into nature to understand the nature of things

Retiring into nature to understand the nature of things

Al-Risala (English), May 1985, p. 7

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

Retiring into nature to understand the nature of things

1985 5 May 7 Retiring into nature to understand the nature of things (35) The earliest Chinese philosophers “withdrew into the wilderness, the forests and the mountains, there to meditate upon the order of nature, and to observe its innumerable manifestations.

(Science and Civilization in China, by J. Needham.)

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