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Gongdu pursued, “All are equally men, but
some follow that part of themselves which is great,
and some follow that part which is little; —how is
this?”

Mencius answered, “The senses of hearing and
seeing do not think, and are obscured by external
things. When one thing comes into contact with
another, as a matter of course it leads it away. To the
mind belongs the office of thinking. By thinking, it
gets the right view of things; by neglecting to think,
it fails to do this. These—the senses and the mind—
are what Heaven has given to us. Let a man first
stand fast in the supremacy of the nobler part of his
constitution, and the inferior part will not be able to
take it from him. It is simply this which makes the
great man.”

【注释】［1］钧：同“均”。［2］从：循，随。［3］
大体：心志。［4］小体：耳目口腹之欲。［5］

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