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BOOK XXVIII. KUNG YUNG
OR
THE STATE OF EQUILIBRIUM AND HARMONY'.
SECTION I. 1. What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature. An accordance with this nature is called the Path of Duty; the regulation of this path is called the System of Instruction.
2. The path should not be left for an instant ; if it could be left, it would not be the path.
3. On this account the superior man does not wait till he sees things to be cautious, nor till he hears things to be apprehensive.
4. There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself when he is alone.
5. When there are no stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, or joy, we call it the State of Equilibrium. When those feelings have been stirred, and all in their due measure and degree, we call it the State of Harmony. This Equilibrium is the great root (from which grow all the human actings) in the world; and this Harmony is the universal path (in which they should all proceed).
6. Let the State of Equilibrium and Harmony exist in perfection, and heaven and earth
See the introductory notice, vol. xxvii, pp. 42, 43.
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