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PT. III. SECT. I.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-SZE.
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another for promotion ; if you employ men for their wisdom, the people will rob one another (of their reputation). These various things are insufficient to make the people good and honest. They are very eager for gain ;-a son will kill his father, and a minister his ruler (for it). In broad daylight men will rob, and at midday break through walls. I tell you that the root of the greatest disorder was planted in the times of Yâo and Shun. The branches of it will remain for a thousand ages; and after a thousand ages men will be found eating one another 2.'
3. (On this) Nan-yung Khû 3 abruptly sat right up and said, 'What method can an old man like me adopt to become (the Perfect man) that you have described ?' Kăng-sang Zze said, “Maintain your body complete; hold your life in close embrace; and do not let your thoughts keep working anxiously:
-do this for three years, and you may become the man of whom I have spoken. The other rejoined, 'Eyes are all of the same form, I do not know any difference between them :-yet the blind have no power of vision. Ears are all of the same form ; I do not know any difference between them :-yet the deaf have no power of hearing. Minds are all of the same nature, I do not know any difference between them ;-yet the mad cannot make the minds of other men their own. (My) personality is indeed like (yours), but things seem to separate
1 Compare the Tảo Teh King, ch 9 Khu is in all this too violent.
: A disciple of Kăng-sang Khù ;-'a sincere seeker of the Tâo, very much to be pitied,' says Lin Hsî-kung.
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