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tion 1; when a younger brother comes, the elder weeps 2. Long is it that I have not played my part in harmony with these processes of transformation. But as I did not play my part in harmony with such transformation, how could I transform men?' Lâo-zze said, 'You will do. Khiû, you have found the Tâo.'
BK. XIV.
1 See the Shih King, II, v, Ode II, 3, about the sphex.
2 Because, as we say, 'his nose is put out.' But the sentiment, though it is ascribed to Confucius, is rarely according to the fact of the case.
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