Excerpt from The Four Books: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and the Works of Mencius; With English Translation and Notes

Chu Hsi interprets it by a, to 1mitate, and makes its results to be 55 i ifii a tv], the understanding of all excellence, and the bringing back or1ginal goodness Subsequent Scholars profess, for the most part, great admiration of this explanation. It is an illustration, to my mind, of the way in which Chi} Hsi and his followers are continually being vase above what is written in the classical books. A is the rapid and frequent motion of the wings of a bird m flying, used for to repeat.

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