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fill the country. If you listen to people’s discourses
throughout it, you will find that they have adopted
the views either of Yang or of Mo. Now, Yang’s
principle is— ‘each one for himself,’ which does
not acknowledge the claims of the sovereign. Mo’s
principle is— ‘to love all equally,’ which does not
acknowledge the peculiar affection due to a father.
But to acknowledge neither king nor father is to be
in the state of a beast. Gongming Yi said, ‘In their
kitchens, there is fat meat. In their stables, there are
fat horses. But their people have the look of hunger,
and on the wilds there are those who have died of
famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.’
If the principles of Yang and Mo be not stopped,
and the principles of Confucius not set forth, then
those perverse speakings will delude the people, and
stop up the path of benevolence and righteousness.
When benevolence and righteousness are stopped
up, beasts will be led on to devour men, and men

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