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PT. II. SECT. XIII.
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mouth, it abandons it, and hurries off. It is afraid of men, and yet it stealthily takes up its dwelling by his; finding its protection in the altars of the Land and Grain ?
What do you mean by saying that there is no beginning which was not an end?' Kung-ni said, “The change-rise and dissolution-of all things (continually) goes on, but we do not know who it is that maintains and continues the process. How do we know when any one begins ? How do we know when he will end ? We have simply to wait for it, and nothing more?!
'And what do you mean by saying that the Human and the Heavenly are one and the same?' Kung-ni said, 'Given man, and you have Heaven; given Heaven, and you still have Heaven (and nothing more). That man can not have Heaven is owing to the limitation of his nature 3. The sagely man quietly passes away with his body, and there is an end of it.'
8. As Kwang Kâu was rambling in the park of Tiâoling + he saw a strange bird which came from the south. Its wings were seven cubits in width, and
1 What is said here about the swallow is quite obscure. Hsî. kung says that all the old attempts to explain it are ridiculous, and then propounds an ingenious one of his own; but I will leave the passage with my reader to deal with it as he best can.
Compare with this how in Book XVIII we find Kwang-zze singing by the dead body of his wife.
3 That man is man and not Heaven is simply from the limitation of his nature,-hisappointed lot.
4 Tiâo-ling might be translated Eagle Mount.' Where it was I do not know; perhaps the name originated with Kwang-aze, and thus has become semi-historical.
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