The Doctrine of the Mean · 6 of 34
Chapter 5
The Master said, “Alas! How is the path of the Mean untrodden!”
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The Analects of Confucius · Confucianismindeed have to endure want, but the mean man, when he is in want, gives way to unbridled license." The Master said, "Ts'ze, you think, I suppose, that I am one who learns many thinTao, The Great Luminant · Taoismof Shun. Were anyone to rely merely on his own eyes and intelligence, Given only to a few. without having the proper methods of judging a worthy, and were he to go and try to find The Ethics of Confucius · Confucianismon which all who were devoid of virtue disappeared." (Analects, bk. xii., c. xxii., v. 6.) To Shun himself Confucius attributed that perfect poise which commanded because it was co