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Kun urged again, “Formerly, when Wang
Bao dwelt on the Qi, the people on the west of the
Yellow River all became skilful at singing in his
abrupt manner. When Mian Ju lived in Gaotang,
the people in the parts of Qi on the west became
skilful at singing in his prolonged manner. The wives
of Hua Zhou and Qi Liang bewailed their husbands
so skilfully, that they changed the manners of the
state. When there is the gift within, it manifests itself
without. I have never seen the man who could do the
deeds of a worthy, and did not realize the work of
one. Therefore there are now no men of talents and
virtue. If there were, I should know them.”

Mencius answered, “When Confucius was
chief minister of justice in Lu, the prince came not to
follow his counsels. Soon after there was the solstitial
sacrifice, and when a part of the flesh presented in
sacrifice was not sent to him, he went away even
without taking off his cap of ceremony. Those who

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