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PT. III. SECT. XI. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE.
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their most distinguished member as a sage, and wished to make him their chief, hoping that he would be handed down as such to future ages. To the present day these controversies are not determined.
The idea of Mo Ti and Khin Hwa-li was good, but their practice was wrong. They would have made the Mohists of future ages feel it necessary to toil themselves, till there was not a hair on their legs, and still be urging one another on; (thus producing a condition) superior indeed to disorder, but inferior to the result of good government. Nevertheless, Mo-ze was indeed one of the best men in the world, which you may search without finding his equal. Decayed and worn (his person) might be, but he is not to be rejected,—a scholar of ability indeed!
3. To keep from being entangled by prevailing customs; to shun all ornamental attractions in one's self; not to be reckless in his conduct to others; not to set himself stubbornly against a multitude; to desire the peace and repose of the world in order to preserve the lives of the people; and to cease his action when enough had been obtained for the nourishment of others and himself, showing that this was the aim of his mind;-such a scheme belonged to the system of the Tâo in antiquity, and it was appreciated by Sung Hsing2 and Yin Wăn 2.
It is difficult to understand the phases of the Tâo here referred to.
Both these men are said to have been of the time of king Hsüan of Khi. In the Catalogue of the Imperial Library of Han, Yin Wǎn appears, but not among the Tâoist writers, as the author
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