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子

同耆焉；耳之于声也，有同听焉；目之于色也，
有同美焉。至于心，独无所同然乎？心之所
同然者何也？谓理也，义也。圣人先得我心
之所同然耳。故理义之悦我心，犹刍豢［15］之
悦我口。”

Mencius said, “In good years the children of
the people are most of them good, while in bad years
the most of them abandon themselves to evil. It is
not owing to any difference of their natural powers
conferred by Heaven that they are thus different.
The abandonment is owing to the circumstances
through which they allow their minds to be ensnared
and drowned in evil. There now is barley. Let it be
sown and covered up; the ground being the same,
and the time of sowing likewise the same, it grows
rapidly up, and, when the full time is come, it is all
found to be ripe. Although there may be inequalities
of produce, that is owing to the difference of the

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