anti-myth

Updated: June 14, 2025

Though many centuries had elapsed since the great Master walked the earth, the anti-myth movement of the T'ang and Sung Periods was in reality the long arm and heavy fist of Confucius emphasizing a truer rationalism than that of his opponents and denouncing the danger of leaving the firm earth to soar into the unknown hazy regions of fantasy.

E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner - Myths and Legends of China