Confucius And the Chinese Classics: Or, Readings in Chinese Literature
Confucius And the Chinese Classics: Or, Readings in Chinese Literature
A W Augustus Ward Loomis
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A CONFUCIAN TRACT. 269 evening you ought, in a retired apartment, to ask your heart, saying, " Do any of the matters which you have attended to to-day wound the heavenly principle, or do they agree with principle ? " If your conduct does not correspond with heavenly principle, you ought in future carefully to guard against it. Heaven gives benevolence, politeness, justice, wisdom. (Here is given a representation of the heart. Inside of it are the words :) Benevolence, justice, politeness, wisdo...m, nature almost divine. (Outside, but connected with it, are the words :) The affections : joy, anger, sorrow, happiness : thoughts, wishes, purposes. The course of learning, proper for men, consists in re- storing reason to its pristine lustre, in an enlightened heart, and in making the summit of virtue the only point of rest. A map of the heart as it is gradually obscured and lost. (Here is given a representation of the heart in six phases, at first quite white, gradually blackening till it is altogether black.
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