The late 1800s was a time of explosive growth invention and innovation. What these many innovations of the era had in common, according to your text, was that they

the influence of daoism, buddhism, and legalism on chinese culture. unlike confucianism, daoism looked to nature rather than human beings as the source of morality. according to laozi, human society has to conform to the dao (the way), or the essential unifying element of all that is. some interpret dao as nature.

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