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公都子曰：“冬日则饮汤［7］，夏日则饮水，
然则饮食亦在外也？”
The disciple Meng Ji asked Gongdu, saying,
“On what ground is it said that righteousness is
internal?” Gongdu replied, “We therein act out
our feeling of respect, and therefore it is said to be
internal.”
The other objected, “Suppose the case of a
villager older than your elder brother by one year, to
which of them would you show the greater respect?”
“To my brother,” was the reply.
“But for which of them would you first pour
out wine at a feast?” “For the villager.”
Meng Ji argued, “Now your feeling of
reverence rests on the one, and now the honour due
to age is rendered to the other—this is certainly
determined by what is without, and does not proceed
from within.”
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