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to give its full development to the nature of other men, he 

 can also give the same to the natures of all that is. ... 

 Thus he forms a ternion with heaven and earth " ( 22). 



" Perfection," we are told, " is seen in self-com- 

 pletion, and the path is self-directed" ( 25). But 

 selfishness is as carefully excluded as in Aristotle. 

 For the development of the true self implies the 

 completing, not the destruction, of other selves. 

 " He who is perfect does not only complete him- 

 self; his perfection enables him to complete all 

 other beings also" ( 28). His self-completion 

 shows his moral goodness, the completion of 

 others his wisdom. And thus his nature is truly 

 developed, both in itself and in its relation to 

 others. 



All this, however, is more closely connected 

 with the idea of balance and harmony than in 

 Aristotle. It is indeed like a fusion of the Aris- 

 totelian doctrine of the Mean with the Platonic 

 view of virtue as a harmony, or rather, perhaps, it 

 is the Aristotelian doctrine with the implicit idea 

 of harmony brought out into prominence. Like 

 Aristotle, Tzse-zse sees the difficulty of hitting the 

 Mean, and uses the same metaphor, " In archery 

 we see something like the way of the perfect man. 

 When the archer misses the centre of the target 

 he turns round and seeks for the cause of failure 

 in himself" ( 40). Aristotle's illustrations are well 

 known, olov roorcu CTKOTTOV \ovre, etc. (I. ii. 2), 



