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crawling about is likely to fall into a well, it is no
crime in che infant. Moreover, Heaven gives birth to
creatures in such a way that they have one root, and
Yi makes them to have two roots. This is the cause of
his error. And, in the most ancient times, there were
some who did not inter their parents. When their
parents died, they took them up and threw them into
some water-channel. Afterwards, when passing by
them, they saw foxes and wild-cats devouring them,
and flies and gnats biting at them. The perspiration
started out upon their foreheads, and they looked
away, unable to bear the sight. It was not on account
of other people that this perspiration flowed. The
emotions of their hearts affected their faces and eyes,
and instantly they went home, and came back with
baskets and spades and covered the bodies. If the
covering them thus was indeed right, you may see
that the filial son and virtuous man, in interring in a
handsome manner their parents, act according to a

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