ThephilosopherTsa?ngsaid, "Lettherebeacarefulattentiontoperformthefuneralritestoparents, andletthembefollowedwhenlonggonewiththeceremoniesofsacrifice;—thenthevirtueofthepeoplewillresumeitsproperexcellence."
-CULTIVATION.1.君子hashereitslightestmeaning,=astudent, onewhowishestobeakeun-tsze.孔安国, oftheHandynasty, inthe1sthalfofthe2dcentury, took 固, inthesenseof 'obscured', 'dulled', andinterprets—'lethimlearn, andhewillnotfallintoerror'.Thereceivedinterpretation, asinthetransL, isbetter.2.主, asaverb, 'toholdtobechief'., withChinesemoralists, istoimproveone'sknowledgeandvirtue;—hence, thisseeminglyselfishmaxim.
:—ANADMONITIONOFTSANGSIN.终, 'theend',=death, and 远, 'distant' haveboththeforceofadjectives,= 'thedead' and 'thedeparted' or 'thelonggone'.慎 and 追 mean, 'tobecarefulof', 'tofollow', buttheirapplicationisasinthetranslation.厚, 'thick', inoppositionto 薄, 'thin', metasphorically,=good, 归, 'toreturn', istoshewthatthisvirtueisnaturallypropertothepeople.
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