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PT. II, SECT, XV.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE.
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BOOK XXII.
Part II. SECTION XV. Kih Pei Yd, or "Knowledge Rambling in the
North ?! 1. Knowledge 2 had rambled northwards to the : region of the Dark Water 3, where he ascended the height of Imperceptible Slope 3, when it happened that he met with Dumb Inaction 2. Knowledge addressed him, saying, “I wish to ask you some questions :—By what process of thought and anxious consideration do we get to know the Tâo? Where should we dwell and what should we do to find our rest in the Tâo? From what point should we start and what path should we pursue to make the Tâo our own ?' He asked these three questions, but Dumb Inaction ? gave him no reply. Not only did he not answer, but he did not know how to answer.
Knowledge ?, disappointed by the fruitlessness of his questions, returned to the south of the Bright
1 See vol. xxxix, p. 152.
* All these names are metaphorical, having more or less to do with the qualities of the Tâo, and are used as the names of personages, devoted to the pursuit of it. It is difficult to translate the name Khwang Khu (JE T). An old reading is , which Medhurst explains by Bent or Crooked Discourse.' 'Blurter,' though not an elegant English term, seems to express the idea our author would convey by it. Hwang-Tî is different from the other names, but we cannot regard him as here a real personage.
3 These names of places are also metaphorical and Taoistic.
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