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PT. III. SECT. X. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-8ZE.
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Mohist; why did you not recognise that good service!? I am become (but) the fruit of a cypress in autumn?' But the Creator 3, in apportioning the awards of men, does not recompense them for their own doings, but recompenses them for the (use of the) Heavenly in them. It was thus that Hwan's brother was led to learn Mohism. When this Hwan thought that it was he who had made his brother different from what he would have been, and proceeded to despise his father, he was like the people of Khi, who, while they drank from a well, tried to keep one another from it. Hence it is said, “ Nowa-days all men are Hwans 4.' From this we perceive that those who possess the characteristics (of the Tâo) consider that they do not know them; how much more is it so with those who possess the Tâo itself! The ancients called such (as Hwan)'men who had escaped the punishment of Heaven.'
3. The sagely man rests in what is his proper rest; he does not rest in what is not so ;-the multitude of men rest in what is not their proper rest; they do not rest in their proper rest 6.
4. Kwang-zze said, “To know the Tâo is easy; not to say (that you know it) is difficult. To know it and not to speak of it is the way to attain to the
1 The character for this in the text ( ) is explained as meaning ..a grave,' with special reference to this passage, in the Khang-hsî dictionary.
? The idea of a grave is suggested by the cypress,' and we need not try to find it in .
8 The creator was, in Kwang-ze's mind, the Tâo. • Arrogating to themselves what was the work of the Tao. 5 The best editions make this sentence a paragraph by itself.
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