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8.1
孟子曰：“舜生于诸冯［1］，迁于负夏，
卒于鸣条，东夷之人也。文王生于岐周［2］，
卒于毕郢［3］，西夷之人也。地之相去也，千
有余里；世之相后也，千有余岁。得志行乎
中国，若合符节［4］。先圣后圣，其揆［5］一也。”
Mencius said, “Shun was born in Zhufeng,
removed to Fuxia, and died in Mingtiao; —a man
near the wild tribes on the east. King Wen was born
in Zhou by mount Qi, and died in Biying; — a man
near the wild tribes on the west. Those regions were
distant from one another more than a thousand li,
and the age of the one sage was posterior to that of
the other more than a thousand years. But when
they got their wish, and carried their principles into
practice throughout the Middle Kingdom, it was like
uniting the two halves of a seal. When we examine
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