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Wan Zhang said, “Xiang made it his daily
business to slay Shun. When Shun was made
sovereign, how was it that he only banished him?”
Mencius said, “He raised him to be a prince.
Some supposed that it was banishing him?”
Wan Zhang said, “Shun banished the
superintendent of works to Youzhou; he sent away
Huandou to the mountain Chong; he slew the prince
of San Miao in Sanwei; and he imprisoned Gun on
the mountain Yu. When the crimes of those four
were thus punished, the whole kingdom acquiesced:
—it was a cutting off of men who were destitute
of benevolence. But Xiang was of all men the most
destitute of benevolence, and Shun raised him to be
the prince of Youbi; —of what crimes had the people
of Youbi been guilty? Does a benevolent man really
act thus? In the case of other men, he cut them off; in
the case of his brother, he raised him to be a prince.”
Mencius replied, “A benevolent man does not
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