FOOTNOTE. P. 7

Since writing this, though not necessarily altering the mentioned condition of things, Routledge announces " Soothill and Hodous" Dictionary of Chinese-Buddhist terms. " And Motoschiro's Greek-Japanese dictionary has been published.

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the sky

the livelihood of the people, so as to make
sure that they shall have sufficient
sufficient to serve their parents, and
wherewith to support their wives and
children, that in good years they shall
be abundantly satisfied, and in bad years
shall escape danger of perishing.

"Only men of education can maintain a
steady heart without a fixed livelihood.

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The steady or fixed heart, is part of the directio voluntatis.
The commendable have it and work inside themselves, the
uncommendable look out for lucky chances. Permit me a longer
quotation from( Book VII) Tsin Sin. I. Chap 27, 28.

At fifty, warmth cannot be maintained without silks
and at seventy flesh is necessary to satisfy the
appetite. Persons not kept warm and supplied with food
are said to be starved and famished, but among the
people of King Wan there were no aged who were
starved and famished..

Let it be seen to that their fields of
grain and hemp are well cultivated, and make the
taxes on them light... so that the people may be
made rich.

Let it be seen that the people USE ( caps mine )
their resources of food seasonably and expand their
wealth on the ceremonies, and they won't
be able to exhaust it at that.

The "ceremonies" here are well known to the outlying
latin processions at the feasts of the Madonna etc. They are
of the amenities.

People cannot live without water and fire

19.

or as you might say in the metropolitan areas where
"things aren't as simple as all that." In irregular country
a just equivalence of what we. be equal measuring of flat
acreage.

similarly
Marketing customs are equitable

The profit motive is specifically denounced. I mean that you will
get no more accurate translation of the ideograms

in [ ] [ ]
than "profit=motive".
and evasiveness are
Mercantilism is incompatible with Mencius. Cheap evasion is
impossible anywhere near him.

Naturally men love life. Mencius professes a taste for
fish and bears trotters, but there is an order of preference.
Something are worth more than others. Life is not above rectitude.

If anyone in calm mind can compare the Four Classics
with the greatly publicized hebrew scriptures he will find
that the former are a record of civilized men, the latter
the annals of a servile and nomadic tribe that had not
evolved into agricultural order. It is with the greatest
and most tortuous difficulty that the Sunday School has
got any moral teaching out of the sodid accounts of

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“Let Mulberry trees be planted about the homesteads with their five mow (land measure) and persons of fifty may be clothed with silk. In keeping fowls, pigs and swine let not their times of breeding be neglected, and persons of seventy may eat flesh. Let there not be taken away the time that is proper for the cultivation of the farm with its hundred mow, and the family of 8 moutns that is supported by it shall not suffer from hunger. Let there be careful attention to education in schools...”

All this is on an infinitely higher level than Mosaic lex talionis. It is all out, over and above the balderdash that inflicted my generation of christians.

I, weighing against the best Christian ethic or against the quality of Western mind shown in Grosseteste's treatise on light. I am against the disorderly tendencies, the anarchy and barbarism which break out in poor Christian teaching, fanaticism and superstition. The lack of proportion and failure of objectivity when dealing with texts written extant; and, naturally, against the insularity which credits Byron with having invented Pulci, and all things of all centuries after his time. But if we are ever to communicate with the orient, or cohabit with it, a planet rapidly more quickly circumnavigable had we not better try to find the proportions, try perhaps to collect some of our own better writers (of the ages) to present to them.

The blots of my correction are not dry on my quotation from Ladie Hosie before a still later bulletin confirms an old belief to the effect that any order in China proceeds from a Confucian centre. Chang Kai Shiek " the Christian general " and the one man known to be getting anything done has now taken to using Confucian maxims in his instructions.

Terminal Note

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" All pith "Mencius is very difficult to summarize, yet as Legge
can not be suspected of collusion with credit cranks and new
orthologic economists I add a few sentence from his version :

" Resources arising from government " , that is to say the
increment of association . and so far as I know the
earliest clear formulation of it.

" If a man can prevent the evils of hunger and thirst from being any evils to his mind... "

" Hostile states do not correct one another. "

" The way of the people is this : if they have a certain livelihood they will have a fixed heart. If they have not a fixed livelihood... there is nothing they will not do in the way of moral deflection. "

" What leisure have they to cultivate propriety and righteousness. ? "

" Only men of education are able to maintain a fixed heart without a certain livelihood. "

summarizing : ~~to treat~~ to treat the needy as criminals is not
~~governing decently,~~ it is merely trapping them.

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Civilization consists in the establishment of an hierarchy of values, it can not remain as a meer division between the damned and the saved...with the alternate wailing and hysterical merriment.

The Mencian sense of responsibility is ominpresent. In man to himself, and the governing of the Empire specifically NOT among the ag sage's desires, or at least not regarded by him as a simple pleasure. Out of office he attends to his own internal order, in office to that of as much of the state as is entrusted to him. But at no moment is he irresponsible. To gather and teach the most intelligent of his contemporaries unless by good fortune he find a sage from whom he can learn, but in any case not to start teaching prematurely and not to teach his own ignorance.

The alibi is often a false one, those who say they can do nothing because they lack talent, could at least refrain from deliterious action. This phase has I think been grossly exaggerated in our superstition as to the nature of Confucianism. It is set out as the **MINIMUM** and universal requirement, not as a maximum **HHHH**.

The politica of smassi, was as follows, **HHHH** a q square in nine parts, the central one cultivated by the eight surrounding family, and its produce to the administration : this commuted to a ten percent on central