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taught at the same time, they become almost like
the beasts. This was a subject of anxious solicitude
to the sage Shun, and he appointed Xie to be the
Minister of Instruction, to teach the relations of
humanity: —how, between father and son, there
should be affection; between sovereign and minister,
righteousness; between husband and wife, attention
to their separate functions; between old and young,
a proper order; and between friends, fidelity. The
high meritorious sovereign said to him, ‘Encourage
them; lead them on; rectify them; straighten them;
help them; give them wings: —thus causing them
to become possessors of themselves. Then follow
this up by stimulating them, and conferring benefits
on them.’ When the sages were exercising their
solicitude for the people in this way, had they leisure
to cultivate the ground?

“What Yao felt giving him anxiety was the not
getting Shun. What Shun felt giving him anxiety

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