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Chapter 21

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.

Commentary of Chu Hsi

The above is the twenty-first chapter. Tsze-sze takes up in it, and discourses the subjects of “the way of Heaven” and “the way of men,” mentioned in the preceding chapter. The twelve chapters that follow are all from Tsze-sze, repeating and illustrating the meaning of this one.

Echoes elsewhere

The Ethics of Confucius · Confucianismto give its full development to his own nature, he can do the same to the nature of other men. Able to give its full development to the nature of other men, he can give their full The Way of Peace · New Thoughtgentle under the most trying circumstances, he, and he alone, is possessed of the spotless Truth. And this is so because such lofty virtues belong to the Divine, and can only be ma