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cannot cause that which has such purpose. We know on seeing smoke there must be fire, and cause and result are ever classed together thus. 1484
We are forbidden, then, to say an unthinking cause can make a thing that has intelligence. The gold of which the cup is made is gold throughout from first to last. 1485
*Self-nature then that makes these things from first to last must permeate all it makes. Once more, if "time" is maker of the world, 'twere needless then to seek "escape," 1486
'For "time" is constant and unchangeable, let us in patience bear the “intervals" of time. The world in its successions has no limits, the "intervals” of time are boundless also. 1487
'Those then who practise a religious life need not rely on "methods" or "expedients." The To-lopiu Kiu-na (Tripuna guna sastra?), the one strange Sastra in the world, 1488
Although it has so many theories (utterings), yet still, be it known, it is opposed to any single cause. But if, again, you say that “self” is maker, then surely self should make things pleasingly, 1489
But now things are not pleasing for oneself, how then is it said that self is maker? But if he did not wish to make things so, then he who wishes for things pleasing, is opposed to self, the maker. 1490
(according to the scholastic method) to be a 'vis cognitiva' and a vis effectiva,' the expression in the text appears to correspond with the latter.
1 I do not know any other way of restoring these symbols than the one I have used. But what is the Tripuna guna sastra?
2 Self' in the sense of a universal cause' co-extensive with the things made.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |