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He lamented that “everybody is seeking … juristic arguments to get fossils ‘nationalized’” rather than making international agreements to study them.

Before that they always preferred to remain scholarly and juristic.

“And what these people are saying is this is reciprocation. So they have a juristic argument to retaliate in a similar manner,” he continued, “this is what Allah said in the Quran: fight them back the way that they fight you.”

In putting forth his proposals for the reconstitution of the Chinese government he was thinking, in speaking of a state-machine, of the more or less clearly understood juristic states of the West.138 His concrete proposals dealing with the minutiae of administrative organization, his emphasis on constitution and law, and his interest in the exact allocation of control all testify to his complete acceptance of a sharply delimited state.

The old tradition could not easily be reconciled to a juristic notion from outside.