From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution by Chen

Author:Chen
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

Now that the Grand course has fallen into disuse and obscurity, the kingdom is a family inheritance. Everyone loves [above all others] his own parents and cherishes [as] children [only] his own sons. People accumulate articles and exert their strength for their own advantage. Great men imagine it is the rule that their states should descend in their own families. Their object is to make the walls of their cities and suburbs strong and their ditches and moats secure. The rules of propriety and of what is right are regarded as the threads by which they seek to maintain in its correctness the relation between ruler and minister; in its generous regard that between father and son; in its harmony that between elder brother and younger; and in a community of sentiment that between husband and wife; and in accordance with them they frame buildings and measures; lay out the fields and hamlets [for the dwellings of the husbandmen]; adjudge the superiority to men of valor and knowledge; and regulate their achievements with a view to their own advantage. Thus it is that [selfish] schemes and enterprises are constantly taking their rise, and recourse is had to arms; and thus it was [also] that Yu, Tang, Wen and Wu, King Cheng, and [the] duke of Zhou obtained their distinction.18

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