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In ancient China, there was a human faculty known as zhi, which referred to the wisdom or intelligence capable of perceiving thezhong yong, a concept similar to the Golden Mean of the ancient Greeks. The central concern of this work to date has been to elucidate the functions of Takt and to develop a method for nurturing. The concept of Takt was one that drew attention in the eighteenth century as a term of art in specialized fields such as philosophy aesthetics, and pedagogy, and expanded beyond this to more general fields of what was commonly called learning, to refer to the capacity to perceive inner realities through an examination of external forms. In the European languages (English, for example, uses the word tact), Takt can also mean “the quality of sensitivity and concern for the feelings of others in human relations.” In daily conversation in English one might say “that person has tact,” or “that was a tactful thing to do,” using the word to describe a person with a sensitive, caring, perceptive personality. The English word tact, as the German Takt, derives from the Latin tactus, meaning the sense of touch, the feeling one has internally as a result of contacting something externally.